, which represents 6,000 retailers, said the new regulations would have a 'significant impact' on many businesses. Consumers wanting to purchase goods made using these chemicals will have to show an explosives precursors and poisons licence, which costs £39.50 for three){kind=link}
Businesses selling the chemicals used in camping stoves, fertilisers, rat poison and a fuel for model steam engines will have to comply with new regulations from October 1, introduced in response to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack.
The Home Office has expanded the list of regulated poisons and chemicals that could be used to make explosives to include ten more compounds such as hexamine, a solid fuel, ammonium nitrate, used in fertilisers, and calcium phosphide, in pest control products.
The British Independent Retailers Association (Bira), which represents 6,000 retailers, said the new regulations would have a “significant impact” on many businesses.
Consumers wanting to purchase goods made using these chemicals will have to show an explosives precursors and poisons licence, which costs £39.50 for three
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