, CHIP 96


CHIP 96


Amendments to the current CHIP 2 regulations (to be known as CHIP 96) are expected to come into force in June 1996, except for the new Approved Supply List (ASL), which comes into force in September 1996.


The Principal changes are:


1.1ntroduction of the labe lling phrase "Restricted to professional users" (i .e. this means as used by individuals in the course of their employment, NOT those who are professionally qualified) for certain products. Included in this category are lead compounds and distillate solvent extracts).


2. Bans on the retail sales of specified chemicals.


3. Controls (labelling requ irements) on the supply of creosote.


4. An option to use the phrase 'EEC label' or 'EC label' for substances in the ASL. 'EC' label should be used on new or updated labels.


Approved Supply List changes


Some 100 substances have been amended and a further 700 added. Amongst those added are petroleum hydrocarbons and coal derived substances for their possible carcinogenic or aspiration hazards. These mat erials are identified by specific CAS numbers. Examples of those added are Mineral and Lu bri cating Oils, Kerosines and White Spi ri t s, Pet roleum Dist illates, Naphthas, Aromatic Hydrocarbons, Gas Oils, Slack Waxes, Cracked Hydrocarbons, Residual Oils, Coal Tar and Coal Tar Extracts, Creosote, Tar Oils and Tar acids. A considerable


The Great Room


This year's Annual Dinner will be held on the 9th November in the Great Room, London's foremost banqueting room at Forte pic's flagship hotel the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.


Grosvenor House was


designed by Sir Edwin Luryens and buildi ng work started in 1927 on the site of the Old Grosvenor House. It was the first hotel on Park Lane and as a result today it benefits from unusually spacious bedrooms


and public areas. In 1732, the Old Grosvenor House was the private residence of Richard the Earl of Grosvenor, today berrer known as the Duke of Westminster.


The Great Room was originally built as an ice


rink, considered to be London's most magnificent, one of the fi rst of irs kind in the century. Ir had 16,000 square feer, which could be converted to soft or hard ice for ice hockey marches and it also had a lounge for afternoon tea. The rinks could be covered for Society


Dances and banquets. It set the scene for some of the grearesr sociery events of the rime. HRH The Prince of Wales attended a famous Halloween Fancy Dress Ice Carnival accompanied by Mrs Simpson. A painting of rhis event (left) still hangs in the Lobby of the hotel.


The horel remained open during the Second


World War and opened a restaurant in irs air-raid shelter, later to be known as the Burghley Room. A miniature rifle range was set up on the roof to keep the Home Guards in practice - Captain Mainwaring would have been pleased'


It was from the Great Room that General de Gaulle


rallied the free French, Queen Wilhelmina rhe Durch and King Haaken the Norwegians. Later the Americans rook over the Grear Room, renaming it the "Willow Run" after rhe Derroir car plant because of irs efficiency.


Ir wasn't until rhe !are fifries rhar Government


relaxed resrricrions allowing the horel ro be redesigned and updated, ar rhar rime rhe Grear Room was refurbished ro become a banq ueting room. Irs new carper was four and a half miles long and rook rhe wool from 4000 sheep.


R G Parker


number of these are classified as carcinogenic by default, if the relevant marker substances exceed the permitted level. It will not apply, for example, to mineral oils if the IP 346 DMSO extraction can be shown to be less than 3%. Mixtures of mineral oils containing more than 0 .1% of a carcinogenic classified oil will be classified even if the IP 346 extract is less than 3%.


However, gas oils are generally classified as carcinogenic; this classification is not dependent upon the level of a marker. There can be exceptions, however, depending on the refining history and feedstock.


The aspiration classif ication will apply to preparations with viscosities of less than 7 eSt at 40 deg. C.


Suppliers should also be aware of a new CONCAWE Report (The Classifi cation and Labelling of Petroleum Substances According to the EU Dangerous Substances Directive, Report No. 95/59) which considers additional classification and labelling requirements of petroleum products and lubricants.


A more comprehensive summary of the regulations is contained with in the set of BLF Specimen Data Sheets - Notes on Example 'CHIP' Labell ing Classifications- prepared by Roy Beardmore, of Polartech Ltd., to whom we express our thanks.


D.J.Margaroni


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