Group standards are a form of approval for hazardous substances of a similar nature, type or similar circumstance of use, under Part 6A of the Hazardous Substances and New Organisms (HSNO) Act 1996.

Each group standard contains a condition requiring notification to ERMA New Zealand of any new hazardous chemical present in products approved under that standard.

To check if your products contain any new hazardous chemicals search the NZIoC database.

Search the New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals (NZIoC)

 

 

SEARCHING

To search the database, enter either the:

1] CAS Number
or
2] Name/ Synonym

of a substance into the search engine. All CAS numbers and names on the NZIoC have been verified by the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) of the American Chemical Society.

Search Tips

• The database allows wildcard searching – the ability to replace letters/numbers with a symbol. In the database search screen ‘%’ is the wildcard symbol. For example to find all substances that have ‘sodium’ at the start of their name, you would enter sodium%. Or to find all substances that have ‘sodium’ within their name, you would enter %sodium%.

• As there are only a limited number of chemical synonyms in the database, searching via the CAS number is the most effective search method.

A spreadsheet of the full NZIoC listings can be downloaded here:   NZIoC Spreadsheet

Updates to NZIoC

The New Zealand Inventory of Chemicals will be updated regularly with new chemicals that have been notified and verified. To receive email notification of Inventory updates, register on the Website Update Notifications web page.

Recent Updates :  Inventory of Chemicals Update

How do I notify?

See notification to the Authority.

Further Information

For further information contact ERMA New Zealand – Tel 04 9162426 or email: info@ermanz.govt.nz