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The current International Code for the Construction and Equipment of Ships Carrying Dangerous Chemicals in Bulk (IBC Code) contains five categories - A, B, C, D and an Appendix III, which lists products to which the IBC code does not apply.
Following a re-evaluation, products have been re-categorised into a new '3 plus 1' category system with pollution categories X, Y, Z, and other substances (OS). The changes will take effect from 1 January 2007.
The OS category holds only eight harmless products (apple juice, clay slurry, coal slurry, dextrose solution, glucose solution, kaoline slurry, molasses, and water).
Products defined as 'floaters and persistent floaters! which include vegetable oils, are assigned to category Y Under the currently defined ship typing criteria, this means they will have to be carried in IMO...