Federal Act
on Protection against Dangerous Substances and Preparations
(Chemicals Act, ChemA)

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall es­tab­lish a pois­ons in­form­a­tion centre and en­sure that it is fin­an­cially com­pensated for car­ry­ing out the tasks as­signed to it.

² The in­form­a­tion centre shall provide in­form­a­tion on the pre­ven­tion and treat­ment of pois­on­ing and shall re­com­mend ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures; to this end, it shall col­lect and pro­cess the ne­ces­sary in­form­a­tion, in­clud­ing de­tails of cases of pois­on­ing.

³ It shall have un­res­tric­ted ac­cess to the data in the product re­gister (Art. 27) and shall be en­titled to re­quest the man­u­fac­turer dir­ectly to provide any ad­di­tion­al in­form­a­tion on sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions that may be re­quired for the ful­fil­ment of its tasks.

⁴ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall take ap­pro­pri­ate meas­ures to en­sure that the data made avail­able in ac­cord­ance with para­graph 3 is treated con­fid­en­tially and that com­mer­cial and in­dus­tri­al secrets are pro­tec­ted. It shall spe­cify in par­tic­u­lar the con­di­tions un­der which and the ex­tent to which the in­form­a­tion centre may, for med­ic­al pur­poses of a pre­vent­ive or cur­at­ive nature, dis­close de­tails of the com­pos­i­tion and prop­er­ties of sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions.