41 CFR Appendix Appendix B to Part 102-40
Federal Supply Classes and Groups Which Contain a Significant Number of Hazardous Items
August 7, 2025
Appendix B to Part 102-40—Federal Supply Classes and Groups Which Contain a Significant Number of Hazardous Items
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.
Open 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. |
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