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hazardous chemicals that form part of the integrated refrigeration system of refrigerated freight containers
    * potable liquids that are consumer products at retail premises.
The following things are excluded from the scope of the WHS Regulations except to the extent that the use, handling or storage of those things is related to a work activity at a workplace:
    * food and beverages within the meaning of the Food Standards Australia New Zealand Food Standards Code that are in a package and form intended for human consumption
    * therapeutic goods at the point of intentional intake by or administration to humans
    * veterinary chemical products at the point of administration to animals
    * tobacco or products made of tobacco.
While this Code applies to hazardous chemicals as defined, an SDS should be provided for any chemical that may adversely impact the health or safety of persons or the environment, but has insufficient information to allow it to be correctly classified. The SDS should reflect what is currently known about the chemical.
Where a mixture contains an ingredient that meets the criteria for respiratory and skin sensitisation, specific target organ toxicity, reproductive toxicity, carcinogenicity and mutagenicity it is recommended that an SDS be prepared for that mixture, even if the mixture overall is not a hazardous chemical according to the WHS Regulations.
Other information on hazard properties of a chemical not already captured within the SDS should be included, for example if the chemical has ototoxic properties.[1]
Some overseas authorities may require an SDS or information on an SDS for certain chemicals that are not hazardous chemicals under the WHS Regulations, for example substances that meet the criteria for a GHS hazard class or category as noted in this section.

Products containing nanomaterials
For engineered or manufactured nanomaterials[2] or chemicals containing engineered or manufactured nanomaterials, an SDS should be provided unless there is evidence that the nanomaterials are not hazardous.

  2.      PREPARING, REVIEWING AND AMENDING SAFETY DATA SHEETS

An SDS must be prepared and written to provide accurate information about the hazards of a chemical and how to handle it safely, including its storage and disposal. It must contain information about physicochemical properties, as well as potential health and emergency response measures. The SDS should also contain information relevant to environmental effects to meet other laws.

    2.1         What information is needed in an SDS?

Regulation 330, Schedule 7: A safety data sheet must:
    * be in English
    * contain unit measures expressed in Australian legal units of measurement under the National Measurement Act 1960 (Commonwealth)
    * state the date it was last reviewed, or if it has not been reviewed, the date it was prepared
    * state the name, Australian address and