Five departments jointly issued a notice: strict approval of ammonium nitrate construction projects

According to the website of the Ministry of Emergency Management, ammonium nitrate has the danger of exploding when exposed to fire, high temperature, and violent impact

The notice requires all regions to strengthen the control of the source of ammonium nitrate safety risks, strictly review and approve ammonium nitrate construction projects, and assess the external safety protection distance of new, renovated, and expanded projects according to the quantitative risk assessment method

The notice emphasizes that emergency management departments at all levels should further strengthen the safety supervision of ammonium nitrate production and operation (storage) enterprises and chemical enterprises that use ammonium nitrate; the civil explosives industry authorities at all levels should seriously investigate and deal with illegal sales of ammonium nitrate in accordance with the law.

The notice clearly stated that the Ministry of Emergency Management will speed up the study and formulation of relevant standards and regulations for the safety management of ammonium nitrate with relevant departments; the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology will speed up the construction of a national hazardous chemical supervision information sharing platform with relevant departments, and give full play to the platform’s supervision of ammonium nitrate information Shared supporting role