WHEREAS, Chemfields, Inc. is a government owned or controlled corporation with the government owning and controlling sixty percent (60%) of its equity;

WHEREAS, Chemfields, Inc. is the only pharmaceutical company in the country which presently produces intermediate raw materials such as ampicillin and amoxycillin;

WHEREAS, Chemfields, Inc. has been identified as the appropriate entity to advance the government ™s National Drug Policy, particularly its goal of self-sufficiency, through product diversification and backward integration;

NOW, THEREFORE, I, CORAZON C. AQUINO, President of the Philippines, by virtue of powers vested in me by law, do hereby order:

SECTION 1. Chemfields, Inc. is hereby placed under the supervision of the Department of Health, in accordance with the Administrative Code of 1987.

SECTION 2. The Secretary of Health shall render a periodic report to the Office of the President on the operations of Chemfields, Inc.

SECTION 3. This Administrative Order shall take effect immediately.

DONE in the City of Manila, this 1st day of June, in the year of Our Lord, nineteen hundred and ninety.


By the President:
(Sgd.) CATALINO MACARAIG, JR.
Executive Secretary