Voluntary Call for Information on Chemicals – Introducers of Chemicals of Potential Security Concern

The National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) published a voluntary call for information on certain chemicals which are of potential security concern in the Chemical Gazette of 2 August 2011.
This notice replicates the call for information and is directed at importers or manufacturers of the 40 industrial chemicals listed below. Organisations who have responded to the August Gazette notice need not respond again.

Chemical Name	CAS No.
Arsenic pentoxide	1303-28-2
Arsenic trioxide	1327-53-3
Beryllium sulphate	13510-49-1
Calcium cyanide	592-01-8
Carbon disulfide	75-15-0
Chloropicrin	76-06-2
Cyanogen bromide	506-68-3
Cyanogen chloride	506-77-4
Diethyl phosphate	762-04-9
Dimethyl mercury	593-74-8
Dimethyl phosphite	868-85-9
Dimethyl sulphate	77-78-1
Ethyl mercury chloride	107-27-7
Ethyldiethanolamine	139-87-7
Fluoroacetic acid	144-49-0
Fluoroethyl alcohol	371-62-0
Fluoroethyl fluoroacetate	459-99-4
Mercuric chloride	7487-94-7
Mercuric nitrate	10045-94-0
Mercuric oxide	21908-53-2
Mercurous nitrate	10415-75-5
Mercury cyanide	592-04-1
Methyl fluoroacetate	453-18-9
Methyldiethanolamine	105-59-9
Osmium tetroxide	20816-12-0
Phosphorus	7723-14-0
Phosphorus oxychloride	10025-87-3
Phosphorus pentachloride	10026-13-8
Phosphorus trichloride	7719-12-2
Potassium cyanide	151-50-8
Sodium cyanide	143-33-9
Sulfur dichloride	10545-99-0
Sulfur monochloride	10025-67-9
Thallium sulphate	7446-18-6
Thionyl chloride	7719-09-7
Thiophosphoryl chloride	3982-91-0
Triethanolamine	102-71-6
Triethyl phosphite	122-52-1
Trimethyl phosphite	121-45-9
Zinc cyanide	557-21-1

To assist with the recording of relevant information on these chemicals, NICNAS has developed a survey template which can be downloaded using this link: http://www.nicnas.gov.au/consultations.asp

Please send the requested information by 13 September 2011 to:
Maureen Hardy
Science Strategy & International Programs
NICNAS
GPO Box 58
Sydney NSW 2001
email: maureen.hardy@nicnas.gov.au.

NICNAS is collating information on the 40 chemicals on behalf of the Australian Government Attorney-General ’s Department (AGD). The information will primarily be considered to inform risk assessments on these chemicals of potential security concern.

For further information, please contact Mr Phillip Sharp by phone: (02) 8577 8820, fax: (02) 8577 8888 or email: phillip.sharp@nicnas.gov.au.