Picric acid

Drug ingredient

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$11M
Top SourceIndia 78%

The EPA did not publish how much of this chemical companies made or imported, or marked that amount confidential. Without that volume, ACID cannot calculate import dependency.

Where It Comes From

Customs basis: HS 290899 · basket

These shares come from HS customs code 290899, which covers 16 chemicals in total. They estimate the bucket'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
Show all 35
  • •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

Used in 1 sector as 1 functional role.

  • •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

DTXSID40259092026-04-06

https://doi.org/10.23645/epacomptox.5588566

Archive: data/sources/comptox/dsstox_identifiers.csv

69542026-04-06

https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/cid/6954/property/MolecularFormula,MolecularWeight,CanonicalSMILES,InChIKey/JSON

Archive: data/sources/pubchem_properties/6954.json

88-89-12026-04-24

https://www.epa.gov/chemical-data-reporting

Archive: data/sources/epa_cdr/2020_cdr.csv

CAS 88-89-12026-04-07

https://open.fda.gov/data/ndc/

Archive: data/sources/fda/ndc/ndc.json

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