In 1990, the Philippine Congress enacted the Toxic Substances and Hazardous and Nuclear Wastes Control Act, commonly known as Republic Act 6969, a law designed to respond to the increasing problems assoicated with toxic chemicals and hazardous and nuclear wastes. It is an act that mandates control and management of import, manufacture, process, sale, distribution, use, transport, treatment and disposal of chemical substances and mixtures that present unreasonable risk and/or injury to health or the environment in the Philippines.