Abstract:
Since the 1970s, the Philippines aquaculture industry had introduced and used intensive aquaculture technology and chemicals to cope with the pressure of increasing the yield per unit area and the technical bottleneck of improving production efficiency, thus promoting the prosperity and development of aquaculture industry in the 1980s.However, excessive use of chemicals posed a serious threat to the breeding objects, aquatic environment, food safety and human health. These negative effects prompted the Philippines government to strengthen the control of chemicals in the 1990s. Its policies included aquatic product quality inspection system, standardization of the concept of chemical information labeling, publicity of use methods, chemical registration system and practice of sustainable development concept. The government’s management effectively curbed the excessive use of chemicals and promoted farmers to use biodegradable and environmentally friendly chemicals as substitutes as far as possible.The case of the Philippines shows that the management of chemicals should start from the production, sales, use and control of chemicals, and the food safety and quality inspection system is the core.
