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Picric acid

Drug ingredient

CAS 88-89-1

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

Molecular structure of 88-89-1
US productionCBI
Import value, 2024$11M
Top sourceIndia 78%

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 290899 · basket

EPA reports by year
2019
US production Confidential · Imports Confidential

These shares come from HS customs code 290899, which covers 60 tracked chemicals in total. They estimate the category's origin mix, not this chemical specifically.

Source Countries
IN 78%IndiaCN 19%ChinaJP 1%JapanAE 1%United Arab Emirates
16 FDA-registered drug labelers
Apex Energetics Inc.
BioActive Nutritional, Inc.
Boiron
Deseret Biologicals, Inc.
DNA Labs, Inc.
Dr. Donna Restivo DC
Energetix Corporation
Energique, Inc.
Hahnemann Laboratories, INC.
Natrural Creations, Inc.
NET Remedies
Newton Laboratories, Inc.
Nutritional Specialties, Inc.
OHM PHARMA INC.
Professional Complementary Health Formulas
Vitality Works, Inc,

Why It Matters

Sectors
HealthDefense
Downstream Uses

Appears in 35 drug and cosmetic product listings (FDA).

  • •Acidum Picricum
  • •Spinalmax
  • •Dynamic Brain
  • •Orchiforce
  • •Eye Care
  • •N-12
  • •Pleurisy Drops 2047
  • •Aletris Combination 9203
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  • •Category V
  • •Picricum acidum
  • •Water
  • •Valeriana Combination 9249
  • •Chem Trail Detox
  • •Arthritis Joints
  • •Hysteria Drops 2119
  • •Stress Tonic 2998
  • •Cantharis Combination 9252
  • •OHM Fatigue Relief
  • •BURN Relief
  • •D-48
  • •Ledum Combination 9257
  • •Adaptagen
  • •AM-13
  • •N02 Petrochem
  • •MacDee
  • •Dementia Drops 2117
  • •Joette Calabrese Survivalist Kit
  • •Mind Detox and Drainage
  • •Depressoforce
  • •Stress-Tension
  • •Pineal/Pituitary/Hypothalamus Drops 5022
  • •Adaptopath
  • •Burn Aide
  • •N-11
  • •NS Support
FDA Shortage Status
No FDA shortage records

Industrial Uses

  • •Energy Releasers (explosives, motive propellant) in Explosives Manufacturing (100%)Processing—incorporation into formulation, mixture, or reaction product

Vendor Pricing

$0.40/gSigma-Aldrich (Rush Stock)
CountryGermany
Pack$200.98 / 500 g
Purity98%
Vendors8 available

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

7 more vendors
VendorCountry$/gPackPurity
Sigma-AldrichGermany$0.40500 g98%
Otava, Ltd.Ukraine$2280.0050 mg95%
Otava, Ltd. (2 weeks)Ukraine$2724.0050 mg95%
Princeton BioMolecular Research (SC)United States$2900.00100 mg90%
Vitas M Chemical LimitedHong Kong$3170.00100 mg90%
ChemDiv, Inc.United States$4070.00100 mg90%
TimTec, LLC (back-ordered)United States$32000.0015 mg94%

Chemical Identity

CAS88-89-1
PubChem CID6954
DTXSIDDTXSID4025909
FormulaC6H3N3O7
Mol. Weight229.1 g/mol
SMILESC1=C(C=C(C(=C1[N+](=O)[O-])O)[N+](=O)[O-])[N+](=O)[O-]

Data Sources

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Brief citations

Picric acid (CAS 88-89-1) https://chemicalindependence.com/chemical/88-89-1/ EPA CompTox (DSSTox): DTXSID4025909. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://comptox.epa.gov/dashboard/chemical/details/DTXSID4025909 PubChem: 6954. Retrieved 2026-04-06. https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/compound/6954 EPA Chemical Data Reporting: 88-89-1. Reporting year: 2019. https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting FDA National Drug Code directory: CAS 88-89-1. Retrieved 2026-04-07. https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/ US Census international trade: HS 290899 for CAS 88-89-1. Reporting year: 2024. https://usatrade.census.gov/