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Tips to help your work out your introduction category.

Tips to help your work out your introduction category.

This extensive list describes product types and includes many examples. It will help you with categorisation and if you need to submit a pre-introduction report.

A new version of the Categorisation Guide has been released. We changed steps 4.4 and 5.4 of the 'Guide to categorising your chemical importation and manufacture' to include information and definitions about hazard characteristics in the hazard bands, previously only available by referring to the Industrial Chemicals Categorisation Guidelines.

Some NICNAS exemption provisions available until 31 August 2022.

We've added an information sheet to our cosmetics page that you can download and share.

We've added an information sheet to our soaps page that you can download and share.

Did you know? You must keep records about the value of industrial chemicals that you imported and manufactured during the registration year.

There are certain rules about what you can — and can't — do as a certificate holder or as a person covered by a certificate.

There's a temporary outage to the ABN lookup function on our business services portal.

Hint: It depends on how the product is advertised, its intended use – and other factors.

We've updated our outline of what you need to do if you're planning to introduce industrial chemicals – or products that release industrial chemicals – for commercial purposes.

Some of your common questions answered.

Dr Brian Richards will be retiring as AICIS Executive Director on 30 September 2020

Extra information on categorisation of chemicals for use in tattoo inks.

Extra information to help you categorise your polymer.

Learn about our compliance monitoring program.

Extra information on categorising chemicals introduced for research and development.