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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-2001/schedule-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2001/880",
  "legislation_title": "The Biocidal Products Regulations 2001",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/biocidal-products-regulations-2001",
  "path": "schedule/1",
  "kind": "schedule",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "BIOCIDAL PRODUCT-TYPES AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS",
  "text": "Column 1\nColumn 2\nProduct-type\nDescription\nMAIN GROUP 1\nDisinfectants and general biocidal products\nThese product-types exclude cleaning products that are not intended to have a biocidal effect, including washing liquids, powders and similar products.\n1 Human hygiene biocidal products\nProducts used for human hygiene purposes.\n2 Private area and public health area disinfectants and other biocidal products\nProducts (which are not used for direct food or feedingstuff contact) used for the disinfection of air, surfaces, materials, equipment and furniture in private, public and industrial areas, including hospitals, as well as products used as algaecides. Usage areas include swimming pools, aquariums, bathing and other waters; air-conditioning systems; walls and floors in health and other institutions; chemical toilets, waste water, hospital waste, soil or other substrates (in playgrounds).\n3 Veterinary hygiene biocidal products\nProducts used for veterinary hygiene purposes, including products used in areas in which animals are housed, kept or transported.\n4 Food and feed area disinfectants\nProducts used for the disinfection of equipment, containers, consumption utensils, surfaces or pipework associated with the production, transport, storage or consumption of food, feed or drink (including drinking water) for humans and animals.\n5 Drinking water disinfectants\nProducts used for the disinfection of drinking water (for both humans and animals).\nMAIN GROUP 2\nPreservatives\n6 In-can preservatives\nProducts used for the preservation of manufactured products, other than food or feedingstuff, in containers by the control of microbial deterioration to ensure their shelf life.\n7 Film preservatives\nProducts used for the preservation of films or coatings by the control of microbial deterioration in order to protect the initial properties of the surface of materials or objects such as paints, plastics, sealants, wall adhesives, binders, papers, art works.\n8 Wood preservatives\nProducts (both preventive and curative) used for the preservation of wood, from and including the saw-mill stage, or wood products by the control of wood-destroying or wood-disfiguring organisms.\n9 Fibre, leather, rubber and polymerised materials preservatives\nProducts used for the preservation of fibrous or polymerised materials, such as leather, rubber or paper or textile products and rubber by the control of microbiological deterioration.\n10 Masonry preservatives\nProducts used for the preservation and remedial treatment of masonry or other construction materials other than wood by the control of microbiological and algal attack.\n11 Preservatives for liquid-cooling and processing systems\nProducts used for the preservation of water (other than drinking water) or other liquids used in cooling and processing systems by the control of harmful organisms such as microbes, algae and mussels.\n12 Slimicides\nProducts used for the prevention or control of slime growth on materials, equipment and structures, used in industrial processes, such as on wood and paper pulp or porous sand strata in oil extraction.\n13 Metalworking-fluid preservatives\nProducts used for the preservation of metalworking fluids by the control of microbial deterioriation.\nMAIN GROUP 3\nPest control\n14 Rodenticides\nProducts used for the control of mice, rats or other rodents.\n15 Avicides\nProducts used for the control of birds.\n16 Molluscicides\nProducts used for the control of molluscs.\n17 Piscicides\nProducts used for the control of fish except products for the treatment of fish diseases.\n18 Insecticides, acaricides and products to control other arthropods\nProducts used for the control of arthropods (including insects, arachnids and crustaceans).\n19 Repellents and attractants\nProducts used to control harmful organisms (invertebrates such as fleas, vertebrates such as birds), by repelling or attracting, including those that are used for human or veterinary hygiene either directly or indirectly.\nMAIN GROUP 4\nOther Biocidal products\n20 Preservatives for food or feedstocks\nProducts used for the preservation of food or feedstocks by the control of harmful organisms.\n21 Antifouling products\nProducts used to control the growth and settlement of fouling organisms (microbes and higher forms of plant or animal species) on vessels, aquaculture equipment or other structures used in water.\n22 Embalming and taxidermist fluids\nProducts used for the disinfection and preservation of human or animal corpses, or parts thereof.\n23 Control of other vertebrates\nProducts used for the control of vermin.",
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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