By October of 2020, there have been 41,307 substances in the draft NCI, but the majority of them have not been approved. There are 3 statuses for substances in NCI, lack of evidence, under examination, and approval. According to the data shown in Mr. Dinh Thanh Nghia’s speech, there are only 8889 substances that have been approved, which is about one-fifth of all. The rest of the substances are in lack evidence status. For this, Mr. Dinh Thanh Nghia gave 3 main reasons, namely, that these chemicals are:
- Without attachment of evidence (import invoices, etc.);
- Lack of information in SDS; or,
- With an unappropriated chemical name.
