Commodity classification

The content scope of allergens for labeling was established based on the Japan Standard Commodity Classification. Japan is the first country to set up mandatory food allergy labeling and to regulate it under national law. 

A.A.R. Freight Commodity Classification (1947 and Supplements). Accounting Department,... 

An itemized list of the separate categories comprising each of these four commodity classes can be found in the 1927 issue of Commodity Classification (1). 

Because of the growth in industry generally and to accord with such changed conditions, there have been two revisions of the commodity classifications—in 1928 and in 1947. 

Class I Railroads, 1947 to Present. Freight traffic during the years 1941 to 1945 reflected the effect of wartime production with its varying degrees of influence on certain particular commodities, as a result of which a revision of the commodity classification was again desirable. Effective with the January 1, 1947 revision, the number of commodity classes was increased again—this time from 157 to 262 classes. The data reported for each of the 262 classes are the same as shown for the period 1928 to 1946. Of the 105 new classes, some 17 additional classes are of interest to the chemical and allied products industry (Table III). 

Cl) Association of American Railroads, Washington 6, D. C., Commodity Classification, 1947. (2) Manufacturing Chemists Association, Washington, D. C., Chemical Facts and Figures. Useful Information and Statistics Relating to the Chemical and Allied Products Industries, 3rd ed.,pp. 1,290,1950. 

The hazards of chemicals and commodities can be ranked by various systems of commodity classifications. Chemical identity can be established through the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) name, trade name, common name, United Nations/North America (UN/ NA) number, Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) registry number, Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (RTECS) number or chemical formula. As an example, acrylonitrile can be identified as follows ... 

Factory Mutual Engineering Corporation, Advances in Commodity Classification. Record, Norwood, MA, May/June 1989. 

Industrial Risk Insurers, Commodity Classification Guide. IM.10.0.1, Hartford, CT, June 1,1992. 

Fire size at the time of the predicted sprinkler operation. In a commodity classification test this coincides with the start of water application Average values for Tests 4-6, 10 ° Average values for Tests 7-9... 

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