Apply for a licence to sell poisons
In order to sell non-medicinal poison substances, you need a poison sales registration. This is typically required by hardware shops.
Poisons that need to be registered:
- Aldicarb
- Alpha-chloralose
- Ammonia
- The following arsenic compounds - calcium arsenites, copper acetoarsenite, copper arsenates, copper arsenites, lead arsenates
- The following salts of barium - barium carbonate, barium silicofluoride
- Carbofuran
- Cycloheximide
- Dinitrocresols (DNOC), their compounds with a metal or a base
- Dinoseb, its compounds with a metal or a base
- Dinoterb
- Drazoxolon and its salts
- Endosulfan
- Endothal and its salts
- Endrin
- Compounds of fentin
- Formaldehyde
- Formic acid
- Hydrochloric acid
- Hydrofluoric acid, alkali metal bifluorides, ammonium bifluoride, alkali metal fluorides, ammonium fluoride, sodium silicofluoride
- Mercuric chloride, mercuric iodide, organic compounds of mercury except compounds which contain a methyl (CH3) group directly linked to the mercury atom
- Metallic oxalates
- Methomyl
- Nicotine and its salts and quaternary compounds
- Nitric acid
- Nitrobenzene
- Oxamyl
- Paraquat and its salts
- Phenols (as defined in part I of the poisons list) in substances containing less than 60% weight in weight, of phenols and compound of phenols with a metal in substances containing less than the equivalent of 60% weight in weight, of phenols
- Phosphoric acid
- The following phosphorus compounds - azinphos-methyl, chlorfenvinphos, demphion, demeton-S-methyl sulphone, dialifos, dichlorvos, dioxathion, disulfoton, fonofos, mecarbam, mephosfolan, methidathion, mevinphos, omethoate, oxydemeton-methyl, parathion, phenkapton, phorate, phosphamidon, pirimiphos-ethyl, quinalphos, thiometon, thionazin, triazophos, vamidothion
- Potassium hydroxide
- Sodium hydroxide
- Sodium nitrite
- Sulphuric acid
- Thiofanox
- Zinc phosphide
How to pay
The fee for the first year is £31.72 thereafter, renewal costs £16.72. There is also a fee of £8.55 to update details of a registration.