Originally from South America, and later spread by European traders, peanuts, groundnuts or monkey nuts are now cultivated throughout the tropical region.
Peanut is consumed either dry roasted, fried, boiled, ground, and added to food, as flour, extracted peanut oil etc. Dry ground roasted peanut paste added with sweeteners, emulsifiers, salt etc is peanut butter.
KelvinJM, CC BY-SA 4.0 Some people have allergy to peanuts, allergic reaction to peanuts may require immediate medical attention or it may turn fatal.
Dan4th Nicholas from Cambridge, MA, USA, CC BY 2.0 After oil is extracted from peanuts the remains are known as oilcake meal, peanut cake or seedcake. used as animal feed. This product which still contains some oil and moisture may tend to self-heat and start a fire. Classified as substances liable to spontaneous combustion, class 4.2.
Classification of seedcake is based on method of oil extraction, mechanically expelled or solvent extraction and percentage of oil and moisture.
Most seedcakes are from
- coconut (copra),
- cottonseed,
- groundnut (peanut),
- linseed,
- maize (hominy chop),
- niger seed,
- palm kernel,
- rape seed,
- rice bran,
- soya bean and
- sunflower seed
and may be shipped in the form of cake, flakes, pellets, meal, etc.
Apart from this castor beans products Castor Beans, Castor Meal, Castor Pomace or Castor Flake are assigned to UN 2969 class 9.
For transport of seedcake by sea refer to latest guidelines issued by CINS (the Cargo Incident Notification System) and the International Group of P&I Clubs. This guidelines includes information about classification, appropriate container selection, quantity per container and packing of the goods.
Stowage on board ships must be “Protected from sources of heat“. Misdeclared or undeclared seedcake containers may be stowed in wrong location on board ships which may result in disaster.
For transport in bulk carriers refer to latest edition of IMSBC Code.
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