Note: If an item is determined to be hazardous material as defined in § 102-40.30, a Material Safety Data Sheet (or equivalent) should accompany the item even though the Federal Supply Class or Group is not listed in this table.
Federal supply class/group | Title | Examples of hazardous materials requiring identification |
1370 | Pyrotechnics | Warning fuse, fire starter. |
1375 | Demolition materials | Explosive device. |
2520 | Vehicular power transmission components | Items containing asbestos. |
2530 | Vehicular brake, steering, axle, wheel, and track components | Items containing asbestos. |
2540 | Vehicular furniture and accessories | Items containing asbestos. |
2640 | Tire rebuilding and tire and tube repair materials | Items containing flammable or toxic compounds. |
Group 28 | Engines, turbines, and components | Engine valves containing metallic sodium. |
Group 29 | Engine accessories | Engine valves containing metallic sodium. |
Group 30 | Mechanical power transmission equipment | Equipment containing hazardous hydraulic fluid, including PCBs. |
Group 34 | Metalworking machinery | Equipment containing hazardous hydraulic fluids, including PCBs. |
3433 | Gas welding, heat cutting, and metalizing equipment | Compressed gases. |
3439 | Miscellaneous welding, soldering, and brazing supplies and accessories | Hazardous items such as cleaners, acids, flux, and supplies that contain or produce hazardous fumes. |
3610 | Printing, duplication, and bookbinding equipment | Flammable or toxic lithographic solutions. |
3655 | Gas generating and dispensing systems, fixed or mobile | Items that produce hazardous fumes. |
3680 | Foundry machinery, related equipment and supplies | Flammable or toxic casting compounds. |
4240 | Safety and rescue equipment | Items which involve oxygen, compressed gases, or contain emitting charges. |
5610 | Mineral construction materials, bulk | Hazardous items such as cutback asphalt, deck and floor covering, deck and surface underlay compound, sealing compound, flight deck compound. |
5660 | Wallboard, building paper, and thermal insulation materials | Asbestos cloth which has loose fibers or particles that may become airborne and materials containing formaldehyde. |
5820 | Radio and television communication equipment, except airborne | Circuit cooler items that contain gases that are regarded as hazardous to the earth's ozone layer. |
5835 | Sound recording and reproducing equipment | Recording tape cleaners that contain hazardous cleaning fluids. |
5910 | Capacitors | Items that contain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) or sulfuric acid. |
5915 | Filters and networks | Items that contain polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). |
5920 | Fuses and lighting arresters | Items containing radioactive material. |
5925 | Circuit breakers | Items containing radioactive material. |
5930 | Switches | Items containing radioactive material. |
5935 | Connectors, electrical | Kits that contain flammable chemicals. |
5950 | Coils and transformers | Items containing polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). |
5960 | Electron tubes and associated hardware | Tubes that contain radioactive isotopes and require warning labels and magnetron tubes, which require special precautions when being prepared for air shipment. |
5965 | Headsets, handsets, microphones, and speakers | Items containing magnetic material. |
5970 | Electrical insulators and insulating materials | Items containing flammable solvents. |
5975 | Electrical hardware and supplies | Items containing asbestos. |
5985 | Antennas, waveguides, and related equipment | Kits that contain flammable chemicals. |
5999 | Miscellaneous electrical and oxide electronic components | Contact plates that contain beryllium. |
Group 61 | Electric wire and power and distribution equipment | Power factor capacitors containing PCBs. |
6120 | Transformers: Distribution and power station | Transformers containing PCBs. |
6135 | Batteries, primary | Lead-acid, lithium, and mercury batteries and alkaline (with electrolyte). |
6140 | Batteries, secondary | Items that are wet or moist containing corrosive or other hazardous compounds. |
6145 | Wire and cable, electrical | Insulated wire containing asbestos. |
6220 | Electric vehicular lights and fixtures | Items that contain mercury. |
6230 | Electric portable and hand lighting equipment | Items that contain wet batteries. |
6240 | Electric lamps | Items that contain mercury. |
6260 | Nonelectrical lighting fixtures | Items that contain mercury. |
6350 | Miscellaneous signal and security detection systems | Items that contain wet batteries or radioactive material. |
6505 | Drugs, biologicals, and official reagents | Hazardous items as defined in Sec. 102-40.30. |
6508 | Medicated cosmetics and toiletries | Hazardous items as defined in Sec. 102-40.30, subject to DOT Hazardous Materials Regulations. |
6510 | Surgical dressing materials | Items containing flammable solvents. |
6520 | Dental instruments, equipment, and supplies | Items containing flammable solvents, mercury or asbestos. |
6525 | X-ray equipment and supplies: medical, dental, veterinary | Items containing hazardous chemicals, solvents. |
6625 | Electrical and electronic properties measuring and testing instruments | Items containing radioactive materials. |
6640 | Laboratory equipment and supplies | Items containing flammable compounds, mercury or asbestos. |
6685 | Pressure, temperature, and humidity measuring and controlling instruments | Items containing mercury or compressed gases. |
6740 | Photographic | Items containing radioactive compounds. |
6750 | Photographic supplies | Items containing hazardous chemicals, solvents, thinners, and cements. |
6780 | Photographic sets, kits, and outfits | Items containing hazardous chemicals, solvents, thinners, and cements. |
7360 | Sets, kits, and outfits; food preparation and serving | Items containing compressed gases such as fire extinguishers. |
7510 | Office supplies | Hazardous items, such as thinners, cleaning fluids, flammable inks, and varnishes. |
8405 | Outerwear, men's | Maintenance kits containing flammable solvents. |
8410 | Outerwear, women's | Maintenance kits containing flammable solvents. |
8415 | Clothing, special purpose | Maintenance kits containing flammable solvents. |
8465 | Individual equipment | Maintenance kits containing flammable solvents. |
8510 | Perfumes, toilet preparations, and powders | Shipping containers and pressurized containers with flammable or nonflammable propellants. |
8520 | Toilet soap, shaving preparations, and dentifrices | Shipping containers and pressurized containers with flammable or nonflammable propellants. |
8720 | Fertilizers | Items containing weed and pest control or other harmful ingredients or because of their composition, are hazardous. |
9390 | Miscellaneous fabricated nonmetallic materials | Items containing flammable solvents or asbestos. |
9920 | Smokers' articles and matches | Lighter fuel and matches only. |
9930 | Memorials; cemeteries and mortuary equipment and supplies | Items containing formaldehyde or its solutions. |
41 C.F.R. 102-40 app B to Part 102-40