Over the coming weeks, our sales teams will be asking customers to complete a customer statement as part of changes to The Control of Explosives Precursors and Poisons Regulations 2023 which come into force from 1 October 2023.
This will apply to the following products:
Regulated substances and concentration thresholds
Explosives precursors
- Ammonium nitrate in concentration of 16% by weight of nitrogen in relation to ammonium nitrate or higher
- Hexamine
- Hydrochloric acid (CAS RN 7647-01-0): 10% w/w
- Hydrogen peroxide:12% w/w
- Nitromethane: 30% w/w
- Nitric acid: 3% w/w
- Phosphoric acid: 30% w/w
- Sodium chlorate: 40% w/w
- Potassium chlorate: 40% w/w
- Sodium perchlorate: 40% w/w
- Potassium perchlorate: 40% w/w
- Sulfuric acid: 15% w/w
Poisons
- Aluminium phosphide
- Aluminium sulfide
- Arsenic, compounds of, the following—Calcium arsenites; Copper acetoarsenite; Copper arsenates; Copper arsenites; Lead arsenates
- Barium salts (other than barium sulphate, barium carbonate and barium silicofluoride)
- Bromomethane
- Calcium Sulfide
- Chloropicrin
- Fluoroacetic acid, its salts and Fluoroacetamide
- Hydrogen cyanide and metal cyanides (other than ferrocyanides and ferricyanides)
- Lead acetates and compounds of lead with acids from fixed oils
- Magnesium phosphide
- Magnesium sulfide
- Mercury and its compounds
- Oxalic acid: 10% w/w
- Phenols (phenol; phenolic isomers of the following: Cresols, Xylenols, Monoethylphenols); compounds of phenols with a metal, 60% w/w of phenols or, for compounds of phenols with a metal, the equivalent of 60% w/w of phenols
- Phosphorus yellow
- Sodium sulfide
- Ttrychnine and its salts and its quaternary compounds
- Thallium and its salts
- Zinc and Calcium phosphide (CAS RN 1314-84-7)
- 2,4 Dinitrophenol and compounds including Sodium dinitrophenolate
Reportable substances
Explosives precursors
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Acetone
- Potassium nitrate
- Sodium nitrate
- Calcium nitrate
- Calcium ammonium nitrate
- Aluminium powders
- Magnesium powders
- Sulfur
- Magnesium nitrate hexahydrate
Poisons
- Aldicarb
- Alpha-chloralose
- Ammonia 10% w/w
- Barium, salts of, the following: barium carbonate; barium silicofluoride
- Carbofuran
- Cycloheximide
- Dinitrocresols (DNOC) their compounds with a metal or a base
- Dinoseb its compounds with a metal or a base
- Dinoterb
- Drazoxolon; its salts
- Endosulfan
- Endothal its salts
- Endrin
- Fentin compounds of
- Formaldehyde 5% w/w
- Formic acid 25% w/w
- Hydrofluoric acid alkali metal bifluorides; ammonium bifluoride alkali metal fluorides; ammonium fluoride sodium silicofluoride
- Metallic oxalates
- Metal phosphides
- Metal sulfides and polysulfides
- Methomyl
- Nicotine its salts; its quaternary compounds
- Nitrobenzene 0.1% w/w
- Oxamyl
- Paraquat salts of
- Phenols (as defined in part 2 of this schedule) in substances containing no more than 60%, weight in weight, of phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal in substances containing no more than the equivalent of 60%, weight in weight, of phenols
- Phosphorus compounds, the following: Azinphos-methyl, Chlorfenvinphos, Demephion, Demeton-S-methyl, Demeton-S-methyl sulphone, Dialifos, Dichlorvos, Dioxathion, Disulfoton, Fonofos, Mecarbam, Mephosfolan, Methidathion, Mevinphos, Omethoate, Oxydemeton-methyl, Parathion, Phenkapton, Phorate, Phosphamidon, Pirimiphos-ethyl, Quinalphos, Thiometon, Thionazin, Triazophos, Vamidothion
- Potassium hydroxide 17% of total caustic alkalinity
- Sodium hydroxide 12% of total caustic alkalinity
- Sodium hypochlorite solutions above 6% available chlorine
- Sodium nitrite
- Thiofanox
Corrosive products and substances – Offensive Weapons Act 2019
- Ammonium hydroxide (CAS RN 1336-21-6): 10% w/w
- Formic acid (CAS RN 64-18-6): 10% w/w
- Hydrochloric acid (CAS RN 7647-01-0): 10% w/w
- Hydrofluoric acid (CAS RN 7664-39-3): 0% w/w
- Nitric acid (CAS RN 7697-37-2): 3% w/w
- Phosphoric acid (CAS RN 7664-38-2): 70% w/w
- Sodium hydroxide (CAS RN 1310-73-2): 12% w/w
- Sodium hypochlorite (CAS RN 7681-52-9): 10% w/w
- Sulfuric acid (CAS RN 7664-93-9): 15% w/w
