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Current as of January 02, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
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. |
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Code of Federal Regulations Title 41. Public Contracts and Property Management 41 CFR Pt. 102-40, App. B Appendix B to Part 102–40—Federal Supply Classes and Groups Which Contain a Significant Number of Hazardous Items - last updated January 02, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/cfr/title-41-public-contracts-and-property-management/cfr-pt-41-102-40-app-b/
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