Help! How do you tell a chemical from the label?

I am familiar with msds, but this label has almost zero information.  They told me that it contained wax and is food safe.  I simply wanted to check for myself.  

Is Ch Nr designating chemical number?

Can the bar codes be scanned?

Can you post a picture of the label? Might make a bit more sense to us.

Bar codes can be scanned by anyone with a bar code reader, although what it might say is probably not relevant to your question.

I have never seen Ch Nr mean Chemical Number, but since I don't know of any chemical numbering system, perhaps I am just not up on it.

Picture would help.

Thought I had.. lol

Interesting thing is that googling the AR came up with the same buckets being used for hydro

There are lots of bar code readers available online. The quality of their output is a mystery. If you submit an image file of a barcode, it will give you ... something. It may tell you about contents, but I suspect it's just manufacturing and shipping info.

My kingdom for an SDS! Give us hard data and we can help.

Can you post a picture of the product and the barcode, even better if you can post a link to the product, say from walmart/etc.

I have always been told if you cannot pronounce something then it is something you do not want or  maybe is nor organic or better ...

William Wallace wrote:

Is Ch Nr designating chemical number?

I thought that means charge number, as in when was it produced

Benjamin Dinkel wrote:

William Wallace wrote:

Is Ch Nr designating chemical number?

I thought that means charge number, as in when was it produced

Art nr seems article number, which would be the designator I think.  

It just would be nice to have proof of food grade, as I have created drip irrigation systems from the buckets

Well I wasn't expecting to find anything but a duck-duck search for the text on your label found  this: https://www.ulprospector.com/plastics/en/datasheet/394696/elastollan-l-1275-a-10-000 as top result

High transparency, aliphatic polyether polyurethane with outstanding hydrolysis resistance, low temperature flexibility and good resistance to micro-organisms.

There is a datasheet to down load, if you set up an account with them. It looks like it is a polymer manufactured to BASF in Europe. You might want to contact BASF direct (https://plastics-rubber.basf.com/emea/en/performance_polymers.html)  for more information, if you are sure that my information is correct. It doesn't look at first glance food safe, but not particularly nasty either, depending what you are doing with it.

Nancy, perfect. Thank you.  

This is TPU, and is food safe.

Cool thing is that I 3d print, and now know a company that uses you in manufacturing.  Perhaps they make filament, and maybe I can get an employee discount through the person who sold me the buckets.

Your original post stated that it contains food-safe wax, and you wanted to verify that the wax was safe. But the last few post have been about Thermoplastic/rubber.

In your original post were you talking about a waxy-rubber container, or was it a consumable that contains wax, e.g. hair product/lip balm, or a waxy grease for a pipe fitting?

Edited: I think I have a better grasp now. You are re-using some plastic buckets for your garden and was told that prior to this the containers were used to ship some food grade wax (think used drums/IBC totes/etc) and you would like to know the exact type of wax that was in it and to verify if it is safe all based on the barcode that you posted.

S Bengi wrote:Your original post stated that it contains food-safe wax, and you wanted to verify that the wax was safe. But the last few post have been about Thermoplastic/rubber.

In your original post were you talking about a waxy-rubber container, or was it a consumable that contains wax, e.g. hair product/lip balm, or a waxy grease for a pipe fitting?

The seller told me they were like little wax beads, which they do look like.  To me, it makes sense.

Also the bucket has a little food safe icon on it that I had not seen.  It is pretty reasonable that the employee wouldn't remember what chemical, name but know that it is food safe and what it looks like. It might have some properties of rubber, but it's a neat compound.  

Here is the product that comes up first when searching for Ellastolan, which is the result of the search from the number on the label.

https://forward-am.com/material-portfolio/ultrafuse-filaments-for-fused-filaments-fabrication-fff/flexible-filaments/ultrafuse-tpu-64d/


I am not an expert on TPU, but I do have one spool of it for my printer.  Thermoplastic PolyUrethane is a rubber like filament used to 3d print gaskets and things.  People with my 3d printer make their own Crocs and flip flops out of tpu.  

Found two little pieces in the bottom of a bucket.

This helps to confirm the product