Nitrofurazone

Drug ingredient

CAS 59-87-0

This drug ingredient has classified U.S. production volumes. EPA withholds the number as confidential business information.

US productionCBI

Confidential Business Information. The EPA withholds this volume because publishing it could reveal the reporting company's trade secrets.

Import value, 2024$64M

Top sourceChina 37%

At least one company claimed its 2019 production or import volume for this chemical as confidential, so EPA withholds it.

Why supply is unknown

Production is reported production, not a complete census of factories. US production volume is confidential. Production reporting year: 2019. Import value and source-country shares describe a shared customs category, not a separate chemical measurement.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 293219 · basket

EPA reports by year

2019: US production Confidential · Imports Confidential

These shares come from HS customs code 293219, which covers 136 tracked chemicals in total. They estimate the category's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries

Country of origin for US imports, from Census customs data (2024).

CN 37%ChinaIT 23%ItalyJP 20%JapanIN 12%IndiaES 2%Spain

Belgium
Germany
Netherlands
Canada
Mexico
Slovakia
Malaysia
Portugal
Taiwan
Sweden
Latvia
Israel

3 FDA-registered drug labelers

Kalchem International inc

Menadiona, S.L.

Professional Compounding Centers of America dba PCCA

Why It Matters

Sectors

HealthMetals & Mining

Downstream UsesNot recorded

FDA Shortage Status

Whether any manufacturer currently reports this drug as in shortage on the FDA Drug Shortages database. "Active Shortage" means at least one presentation has status "current."

No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

•Laboratory chemicals in OtherUse—non-incorporative activities

Vendor Pricing

$0.17/gAaron Chemicals LLC

CountryHong Kong

Pack$83.00 / 500 g

Purity97%

Vendors4 available

Prices reflect listed pack sizes. Small research packs run far above bulk rates.

3 more vendors

Vendor	Country	$/g	Pack	Purity
AA BLOCKS	United States	$0.29	500 g	98%
Fulfilled by Molport	Latvia	$5.00	1 g	—
Apexbio Technology LLC	United States	$50.00	1 g	99.65%

Chemical Identity

CAS59-87-0

PubChem CID5447130

DTXSIDDTXSID5020944

FormulaC6H6N4O4

Mol. Weight198.14 g/mol

SMILESC1=C(OC(=C1)[N+](=O)[O-])C=NNC(=O)N

Data Sources

EPA CompTox (DSSTox) · DTXSID5020944Retrieved 2026-04-06
PubChem · compound 5447130Retrieved 2026-04-06
EPA Chemical Data ReportingReporting year: 2019 · Retrieved 2026-10-04
FDA National Drug Code directoryRetrieved 2026-04-07
US Census international tradeReporting year: 2024 · Retrieved 2026-10-04

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Brief citations

Nitrofurazone (CAS 59-87-0) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/59-87-0/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID5020944. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID5020944 PubChem: 5447130. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/5447130 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 59-87-0. Reporting year: 2019. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: CAS 59-87-0. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 293219 for CAS 59-87-0. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/