F.Y.I. - shipping fragrance oils

January 20, 2000

hello peoples,

for those of you hosting co-ops, I thought this might be of interest.....see

below

steph - CT

<<Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2000 00:27:30 -0800

Subject: shipping fragrance oils

Dear list buds,

It appears that there are problems with people not knowing how to ship

oils properly. I used to ship flammable liquids through UPS, and it

wasn't a problem as long as I knew what flammability classification that

it fit into and I properly labeled the package. I also had to fill out

a special hazardous liquids book. Now, on these fragrance oils, some of

them maybe somewhat flammable, and I suppose that should be determined

before shipping them out. I hadn't thought about this myself and I

suppose that the gardenia fragrance that I co-opped last year could also

have been flammable, but I don't remember that it came in that way.

Now, I think it prudent to get an MSDS sheet from the manufacturer when

you purchase the oil (they should send you one automatically). Then you

could just xerox that and include it along with your package so that the

post office will know exactly what they are dealing with in a spill

situation. Now, if your product is flammable, as I recall, you will

have to have special placarding for that and a special records book that

UPS will provide. I don't know how the post office works with that. >>

Recommended Posts