---
kind: "section"
citation: "21 C.F.R. § 1310.03"
title: "21"
number: "1310.03"
heading: "Persons required to keep records and file reports."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/21/1310.03"
---

# §1310.03. Persons required to keep records and file reports.

- (a) Each regulated person who engages in a regulated transaction involving a listed chemical, a tableting machine, or an encapsulating machine shall keep a record of the transaction as specified by [§ 1310.04](/cfr/21/1310.04.md) and file reports as specified by [§ 1310.05](/cfr/21/1310.05.md). However, a non-regulated person who acquires listed chemicals for internal consumption or “end use” and becomes a regulated person by virtue of infrequent or rare distribution of a listed chemical from inventory, shall not be required to maintain receipt records of listed chemicals under this section.
- (b) Each regulated person who manufactures a List I or List II chemical shall file reports regarding such manufacture as specified in [§ 1310.05](/cfr/21/1310.05.md).
- (c)
  - (1) **Each regulated person who engages in a transaction with a nonregulated person which—**
    - (i) Involves ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or gamma hydroxybutyric acid (including drug products containing these chemicals or controlled substance); and
    - (ii) Uses or attempts to use the U.S. Postal Service or any private or commercial carrier must, on a monthly basis, report to the Administration each such transaction conducted during the previous month as specified in §§ [1310.05(e)](/cfr/21/1310.05.md?p=e) and [1310.06(k)](/cfr/21/1310.06.md?p=k) on DEA Form 453 through the DEA Diversion Control Division secure network application.
  - (2) **Each regulated person who engages in an export transaction which—**
    - (i) Involves ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, phenylpropanolamine, or gamma hydroxybutyric acid (including drug products containing these chemicals or controlled substance); and
    - (ii) Uses or attempts to use the U.S. Postal Service or any private or commercial carrier must, on a monthly basis, report each such transaction conducted during the previous month as specified in §§ [1310.05(e)](/cfr/21/1310.05.md?p=e) and [1310.06(k)](/cfr/21/1310.06.md?p=k) on DEA Form 453 through the DEA Diversion Control Division secure network application.

## Notes

### Amendments

[54 FR 31665, Aug. 1, 1989, as amended at 56 FR 8277, Feb. 28, 1991; 61 FR 14023, Mar. 29, 1996; 67 FR 14861, Mar. 28, 2002; 68 FR 57804, Oct. 7, 2003; 70 FR 294, Jan. 4, 2005; 81 FR 97022, Dec. 30, 2016]

### Authority

Authority: 21 U.S.C. 802, 827(h), 830, 871(b) 890.

### Source

Source: 54 FR 31665, Aug. 1, 1989, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[54 FR 31665, Aug. 1, 1989, as amended at 56 FR 8277, Feb. 28, 1991; 61 FR 14023, Mar. 29, 1996; 67 FR 14861, Mar. 28, 2002; 68 FR 57804, Oct. 7, 2003; 70 FR 294, Jan. 4, 2005; 81 FR 97022, Dec. 30, 2016]