Numerous fires has taken place aboard ships in the recent past resulting in huge loss of properties including loss of lives. Misdeclaration or non declaration of the dangerous goods is considered to be cause of many of these fires. Before we offer to transport or accept to transport any goods we must ascertain whether the goods are dangerous or not, if declared as dangerous is the declaration, packaging, marks, labels & placards are correct according to IMDG Code.
Is bakery materials dangerous goods?
Residue remaining after oil has been extracted by a solvent process or expelled mechanically from oil-bearing seeds are listed in IMDG Code as below
In the properties and observation IMDG Code states
“The most common seed cakes include those derived from coconut (copra), cottonseed, groundnut (peanut), linseed, maize (hominy chop), niger seed, palm kernel, rape seed, rice bran, soya bean and sunflower seed and they may be shipped in the form of cake, flakes, pellets, meal, etc.”
IMSBC Code description says
Residue remaining after oil has been extracted by a solvent process from oil-bearing seeds. The cereals and cereal products included in this schedule are those derived from:
Bakery materials –Meal, oily- Barley malt pellets- Mill feed pellets-Beet -Niger seed, expellers- Bran pellets Oil cake- Brewers grain pellets- Palm kernel-Citrus pulp pellets Peanuts- Coconut Pellets, cereal-Copra -Pollard pellets-Corn gluten- Rape seed-Cotton seed Rice broken- Expellers -Rice bran- Gluten pellets- Safflower seed- Ground nuts, meal- Seed expellers, oily- Hominy chop- Soyabean- Linseed- Strussa pellets-Maize- Sunflower seed.
Exemption from IMDG Code is given only for soya bean meal carried as Seed Cake under UN 2217 that has been solvent extracted and has suitably low oil and moisture content. (Special Provision 142).
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