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Schedule 8 OTHER SUBSTANCES AND PROCESSES TO WHICH THE DEFINITION OF “CARCINOGEN” RELATES

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

  • Aflatoxins

  • Arsenic

  • Bichromate manufacture involving the roasting of chromite ore

  • Electrolytic chromium processes, excluding passivation, which involve hexavalent chromium compounds

  • Mustard gas (B, B'Dichlorodiethyl sulphide)

  • Calcining, sintering or smelting of nickel copper matte or acid leaching or electrorefining of roasted matte

  • Coal soots, coal tar, pitch and coal tar fumes

  • The following mineral oils:

    1. (i)

      unrefined and mildly refined vacuum distillates;

    2. (ii)

      catalytically cracked petroleum oils with final boiling points above 320°C;

    3. (iii)

      used engine oils;

  • Auramine manufacture

  • Leather dust in boot and shoe manufacture, arising during preparation and finishing

  • Hard wood dusts

  • Isopropyl alcohol manufacture (strong acid process)

  • Rubber manufacturing and processing giving rise to rubber process dust and rubber fume

  • Magenta manufacture