Fructose (CAS 57-48-7): storage and disposal

Damp is the hazard that decides where it goes, since fructose draws moisture from the air readily and a loosely closed jar will become sticky within a damp season. Keep it in a dry, labelled, well organised store with the lid screwed down, not on a shelf over a wash area or beside bottles of aqueous solution. Date it on arrival and separate it from food grade supplies, as a sugar jar in a prep room is easily mistaken for something edible. A silica gel sachet is not needed if the lid is tight and the shelf is dry.

Normal fructose is a free flowing crystalline powder. What does not look right is a jar that has fused into a single hard lump that will not tip out, a sticky or syrupy film inside the lid, and crystals that look wet or darkened where they touch the glass. Mould can follow in a damp store. A faded label or missing date is the other common problem. Record the condition of the contents and the label. Do not chip the block out or add water to loosen it.

By specialist collection only. It never goes down the drain or into general waste. It is normally packed in a non-regulated or low hazard laboratory pack with compatible chemicals.

A fused block in a jar is grouped and packed with other solid laboratory chemicals as one container, and the label is what describes it. On the sources we checked fructose is not classified as hazardous, so it uses the non hazardous code 16 05 09, and a waste transfer note covers the move. It remains a chemical waste, so it must not be dissolved and poured into a sink, a drain or general waste. Note the label wording, the state of the contents and the approximate quantity.

Usually held as: solid.

Part-used bottles and full containers are both fine. Tell us the size and how many, and an estimate is enough for a first price.