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Sections 54(1) and 54(2) of the Industrial Chemicals (Notification and Assessment) Act 1989 (the Act) require the Director of NICNAS to maintain a list of priority existing chemicals (Table 1), and a list of chemicals that have been priority existing chemicals (Table 2). The following lists are published in accordance with section 54(3) of the Act that requires these lists to be published once a year in the Chemical Gazette.

The tables detail the nature of the assessment (full or preliminary). Preliminary assessments are denoted by an asterisk (*). Assessments are conducted to determine the potential risks to the public, worker health and/or the environment associated with all industrial uses of the chemical in Australia, unless indicated otherwise. Assessments may be conducted for several chemicals as a group: these group assessments are indicated by the title of the assessment.

Table 1: Current priority existing chemicals

Current priority existing chemicals

Chemical

CAS number

Declaration date

Full risk assessments

Decabromodiphenyl ether 

1163-19-5

June 2005

Pentabromodiphenyl ether 

32534-81-9

January 2006

Tetrabromobisphenol A 

79-94-7

June 2005

More information on current priority existing chemicals is available on our PEC declarations page.

Table 2 indicates the publication date of the assessment reports for which the declaration of the priority existing chemical was revoked. All published priority existing chemical reports are available from NICNAS, and electronic copies are available on our PEC assessments page.


Table 2: Priority existing chemical reports

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