You can no longer introduce a chemical under the National Industrial Chemicals Notification and Assessment Scheme (NICNAS) exemption criteria. But you must keep records for 5 years about your previous introductions.
Restrictions we've put on a chemical introduction. You must read the restrictions and compare this with your introduction to make sure you are authorised. There's also information on what to do if you do not meet the restrictions we've imposed.
A description of any previous assessment of a chemical. You must check and compare with your introduction to make sure you are authorised under the terms. There's also information on what to do if you do not meet the defined scope of assessment.
An introduction means the importation or manufacture of an industrial chemical in Australia. An importer or manufacturer of industrial chemicals is an ‘introducer’.
If you can't introduce a listed chemical within the terms of its Inventory listing or under the exempted or reported categories, you must ask us to vary the terms of that listing if you want to introduce it.
In this step, you can work out your introduction’s category using your introduction's indicative human health risk from step 4.5 and indicative environment risk from step 5.5.
