Permit – Certain health-hazardous goods

A part of the Swedish National Institute of Public Health’s mandate is to monitor and investigate the need for narcotics classification of such goods that do not comprise pharmaceuticals and the need for control of goods under the Act on the Prohibition of Certain Goods Dangerous to Health.

The Act on the Prohibition of Certain Goods Dangerous to Health (SFS 1999:42) applies to goods that, due to their inherent characteristics, entail a danger to human life or health and are used or can be assumed to be used with the aim of achieving intoxication or other effects.
The Government stipulates the goods to which the law shall be applied in the Ordinance regarding the Prohibition of Certain Goods Dangerous to Health (SFS 1999:58). These goods are listed in the appendix to this ordinance.
Under the ordinance, the National Police Board and Swedish Customs are obliged to immediately report if they observe anything in their activities that indicates that new substances are used for abuse purposes or if they note changes in patterns of abuse of known substances.
The same ordinance states that the Swedish National Institute of Public Health (SNIPH) may grant handling permits for scientific or industrial purposes. The permit application (see the menu at left) must be filed with SNIPH and is valid for one calendar year.
Permit application forms can be printed out from SNIPH’s website and can also be ordered from SNIPH at tel. +46-63-19 96 00.

Permit requirement exemption
GBL and 1.4-BD are relatively extensively used in industry, which demands a system that does not obstruct the use of these products at the same time that it minimises the risks that the substances will be used for abuse purposes.
For this reason, SNIPH has announced the possibility of obtaining an exemption from the permit requirement for certain preparations of GBL and 1.4-BD under certain conditions as presented in regulation (FHIFS 2007:1).