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The Poisons List Order 1982

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SCHEDULETHE POISONS LIST

PART I

  • Aluminium phosphide

  • Arsenic; its compounds, other than those specified in Part II of this List

  • Barium, salts of, other than barium sulphate and the salts of barium specified in Part II of this List

  • Bromomethane

  • Chloropicrin

  • Fluoroacetic acid; its salts; fluoroacetamide

  • Hydrogen cyanide; metal cyanides, other than ferrocyanides and ferricyanides

  • Lead acetates; compounds of lead with acids from fixed oils

  • Mercury, compounds of, the following:—

  • nitrates of mercury; oxides of mercury; mercuric cyanide oxides; mercuric thiocyanate; ammonium mercuric chlorides; potassium mercuric iodides; organic compounds of mercury which contain a methyl (CH3) group directly linked to the mercury atom

  • Oxalic acid

  • Phenols (any member of the series of phenols of which the first member is phenol and of which the molecular composition varies from member to member by one atom of carbon and two atoms of hydrogen) except in substances containing less than sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal, except in substances containing less than the equivalent of sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols

  • Phosphorus, yellow

  • Strychnine; its salts; its quaternary compounds

  • Thallium, salts of

PART II

  • Aldicarb

  • Alpha-chloralose

  • Ammonia

  • Arsenic, compounds of, the following:—

  • Calcium arsenites

  • Copper acetoarsenite

  • Copper arsenates

  • Copper arsenites

  • Lead arsenates

  • 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

  • Formic acid

  • Hydrochloric acid

  • Hydrofluoric acid; alkali metal bifluorides; ammonium bifluoride; alkali metal fluorides; ammonium fluoride; sodium silicofluoride

  • Mercuric chloride; mercuric iodide; organic compounds of mercury except compounds which contain a methyl (CH3) group directly linked to the mercury atom

  • Metallic oxalates

  • Methomyl

  • Nicotine; its salts; its quaternary compounds

  • Nitric acid

  • Nitrobenzene

  • Oxamyl

  • Paraquat, salts of

  • Phenols (as defined in Part I of this List) in substances containing less than sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols; compounds of phenols with a metal in substances containing less than the equivalent of sixty per cent., weight in weight, of phenols

  • Phosphoric acid

  • 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

  • Sodium hydroxide

  • Sodium nitrite

  • Sulphuric acid

  • Thiofanox

  • Zinc phosphide

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