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Regulation 5
Adhesives; anti-fouling compositions; builders' materials; ceramics; cosmetic products; distempers; electrical valves; enamels; explosives; fillers; fireworks; fluorescent lamps; flux in any form for use in soldering; glazes; glue; inks; lacquer solvents; loading materials; matches; medicated animal feeding stuffs; motor fuels and lubricants; paints; photographic paper; pigments; plastics; propellants; rubber; varnishes; vascular plants and their seeds.
For this purpose—
“cosmetic products” has the same meaning as in the Cosmetic Products Enforcement Regulations 2013 M1;
“medicated animal feeding stuff” means an animal feeding stuff in which a medicinal product has been incorporated or in which a substance other than a medicinal product has been incorporated for a medicinal purpose (and the terms “medicinal product”, “animal” and “medicinal purpose” have the same meanings as in Part 1 of the Human Medicines Regulations 2012 M2).
Poison | Substance or article in which exempted |
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Ammonia | Substances not being solutions of ammonia or preparations containing solutions of ammonia; substances containing less than 10%, weight in weight, of ammonia (NH); refrigerators |
Arsenic; its compounds | Pyrites ores or sulphuric acid containing arsenic or compounds of arsenic as natural impurities; in reagent kits or reagent devices, supplied for medical or veterinary purposes, substances containing less than 0.1%, weight in weight, of arsanilic acid |
Barium, salts of | Witherite other than finely ground witherite; barium carbonate bonded to charcoal for case hardening; fire extinguishers containing barium chloride; sealed smoke generators containing not more than 25%, weight in weight, of barium carbonate |
Bromomethane | Fire extinguishers |
Formaldehyde | Substances containing less than 5%, weight in weight, of formaldehyde (H.CHO); photographic glazing or hardening solutions |
Formic acid | Substances containing less than 25%, weight in weight, of formic acid (H.COOH) |
Hydrochloric acid | Substances containing less than 10%, weight in weight, of hydrochloric acid (HC1) |
Hydrogen cyanide | Preparations of wild cherry; in reagent kits supplied for medical or veterinary purposes, substances containing less than the equivalent of 0.1%, weight in weight, of hydrogen cyanide (HCN) |
Methomyl | Solid substances containing not more than 1%, weight in weight, of methomyl |
Nicotine; its salts; its quaternary compounds | Tobacco; in cigarettes, the paper of a cigarette (excluding any part of that paper forming part of or surrounding a filter), where that paper in each cigarette does not have more than the equivalent of 10 milligrams of nicotine; preparations in aerosol dispensers containing not more than 0.2% of nicotine, weight in weight; other liquid preparations, and solid preparations with a soap base, containing not more than 7.5% of nicotine, weight in weight |
Oxamyl | Granular preparations |
Oxydemeton-methyl | Aerosol dispensers containing not more than 0.25%, weight in weight, of oxydemeton-methyl |
Phenols | Liquid disinfectants and antiseptics containing less than 0.5% phenol and containing less than 5% of other phenols; |
motor fuel treatments not containing phenol and containing less than 2.5% of other phenols; in reagent kits supplied for medical or veterinary purposes; | |
solid substances containing less than 60% of phenols; | |
in tar oil distillation fractions containing not more than 5% of phenols; | |
Phosphoric acid | Substances containing phosphoric acid, not being descaling preparations containing more than 50%, weight in weight, of ortho-phosphoric acid |
Potassium hydroxide | Substances containing the equivalent of less than 17% of total caustic alkalinity expressed as potassium hydroxide; accumulators; batteries |
Sodium fluoride | Substances containing less than 3% of sodium fluoride as a preservative |
Sodium hydroxide | Substances containing the equivalent of less than 12% of total caustic alkalinity expressed as sodium hydroxide |
Sodium silicofluoride | Substances containing less than 3% of sodium silicofluoride as a preservative |
1. A reference in this Part of this Schedule to the percentage of a poison contained in a substance or preparation is (unless otherwise provided) to be read in the way mentioned in paragraph (2).E+W+S
2. If the reference is (for example) to a substance or preparation containing 1% of a poison, it means—E+W+S
(a)in the case of a solid, that one gram of the poison is contained in every 100 grams of the substance or preparation;
(b)in the case of a liquid, that one millilitre of the poison or, if the poison is itself a solid, one gram of the poison, is contained in every 100 millilitres of the substance or preparation,
and this paragraph applies likewise in proportion for any greater or lesser percentage.
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