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BIOCIDAL PRODUCT-TYPES AND THEIR DESCRIPTIONS - AS STATED IN THE BIOCIDAL PRODUCTS DIRECTIVE, TOGETHER WITH PROPOSED 'FIELDS OF USE'.
* This list has been modified to include the sub-groups published in the Review Regulation. *
These product-types
exclude products where they are covered by the Directives mentioned in
Article 1(2) of the Directive for the purposes of those Directives and
their subsequent modifications.
MAIN GROUP 1: Disinfectants and general biocidal products
These product types exclude cleaning products that are not intended to
have a biocidal effect, including washing liquids, powders and similar
products.
Product-type 1: Human hygiene biocidal products
Products in this group are biocidal products used for human hygiene purposes.
Product-type
2: Private area and public health area disinfectants and other
biocidal products
Products used for the disinfection of air, surfaces, materials, equipment
and furniture which are not used for direct food or feed contact in private,
public and industrial areas, including hospitals, as well as products
used as algaecides.
Usage areas include, inter alia, swimming pools, aquariums, bathing and
other waters; air-conditioning systems; walls and floors in health and
other institutions; chemical toilets, waste water, hospital waste, soil
or other substrates (in playgrounds).
- Disinfectants for medical equipment, biocidal products for accommodation for man or in industrial areas.
- Biocidal products to be used in swimming pools etc.
- Biocidal products to be used in air-conditioning system.
- Biocidal products for chemical toilets, treatment of waste water or treatment of hospital waste.
- Other biocidal products within product type 2
Product-type
3: Veterinary hygiene biocidal products
Products in this group are biocidal products used for veterinary hygiene
purposes including products used in areas in which animals are housed,
kept or transported.
Product-type
4: Food and feed area disinfectants
Products used for the disinfection of equipment, containers, consumption
utensils, surfaces or pipework associated with the production, transport,
storage or consumption of food, feed or drink (including drinking water)
for humans and animals.
Product-type 5: Drinking water disinfectants
Products used for the disinfection of drinking water (for both humans
and animals).
MAIN GROUP 2: Preservatives
Product-type 6: In-can preservatives
Products used for the preservation of manufactured products, other than
foodstuffs or feedingstuffs, in containers by the control of microbial
deterioration to ensure their shelf life.
- Preservatives for detergents.
- Other in-can preservatives.
Product-type
7: Film preservatives
Products used for the preservation of films or coatings by the control
of microbial deterioration in order to protect the initial properties
of the surface of materials or objects such as paints, plastics, sealants,
wall adhesives, binders, papers, art works.
Product-type 8: Wood preservatives
Products used for the preservation of wood, from and including the saw-mill
stage, or wood products by the control of wood-destroying or wood-disfiguring
organisms.
This product type includes both preventive and curative products.
- Pre-treatment in industrial premises (pressure and vacuum impregnation and dipping).
- Other wood preservatives.
Product-type
9: Fibre, leather, rubber and polymerised materials preservatives
Products used for the preservation of fibrous or polymerised materials,
such as leather, rubber or paper or textile products and rubber by the
control of microbiological deterioration.
Proposed fields of use:
- Preservatives for textiles and leather.
- Preservatives for paper.
- Preservatives for rubber and polymerised materials and other biocidal products covered by product type 09.
Product-type
10: Masonry preservatives
Products used for preservation and remedial treatment of masonry or other
construction materials other than wood by the control of microbiological
and algal attack.
Product-type 11: Preservatives for liquid-cooling and processing
systems
Products used for the preservation of water or other liquids used in cooling
and processing systems by the control of harmful organisms such as microbes,
algae and mussels. Products used for the preservation of drinking water
are not included in this product type.
- Preservatives used in once-through systems.
- Preservatives used in recirculating systems.
Product-type
12: Slimicides
Products used for the prevention or control of slime growth on materials,
equipment and structures, used in industrial processes, e.g. on wood and
paper pulp, porous sand strata in oil extraction.
- Slimicides for paperpulp.
- Slimicides for mineral oil extraction.
- Other slimicides.
Product-type
13: Metalworking-fluid preservatives
Products used for the preservation of metalworking fluids by the control
of microbial deterioration.
MAIN GROUP 3: Pest control
Product-type 14: Rodenticides
Products used for the control of mice, rats or other rodents.
Product-type 15: Avicides
Products used for the control of birds.
Product-type 16: Molluscicides
Products used for the control of molluscs.
Product-type 17: Piscicides
Products used for the control of fish; these products exclude products
for the treatment of fish diseases.
Product-type 18: Insecticides, acaricides and products to
control other arthropods
Products used for the control of arthropods (e.g. insects, arachnids and
crustaceans).
- Used by professionals.
- Used by non-professionals.
Product-type
19: Repellents and attractants
Products used to control harmful organisms (invertebrates such as fleas,
vertebrates such as birds), by repelling or attracting, including those
that are used for human or veterinary hygiene either directly or indirectly.
- Repellents applied directly on human or animal skin.
- Attractants and repellents not applied directly on human or animal skin.
MAIN GROUP 4: Other biocidal products
Product-type 20: Preservatives for food or feedstocks
Products used for the preservation of food or feedstocks by the control
of harmful organisms.
Product-type 21: Antifouling products
Products used to control the growth and settlement of fouling organisms
(microbes and higher forms of plant or animal species) on vessels, aquaculture
equipment or other structures used in water.
Product-type
22: Embalming and taxidermist fluids
Products used for the disinfection and preservation of human or animal
corpses, or parts thereof.
Product-type 23: Control of other vertebrates
Products used for the control of vermin.
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