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Re:People who know the formula for WD-40 by Incipient on Monday January 26, 2026 @10:25PM (#46775144)
The SDS should include all SAFETY relevant information/ingredients for whatever jurisdiction. If the local area doesn't really care if it's hexane or pentane from a safety perspective, they'll likely just be lumped together behind a generic name/cas number.

It's absolutely not a BOM to reproduce a product.

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Re:People who know the formula for WD-40 by logifail on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @01:24AM (#46776182)
I'd say a BOM is more like the list of ingredients (or inventory) of what's in a product.

Depending on what the product is, this may still be a long way from the full "recipe" (or method) to recreate the product.

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Re:People who know the formula for WD-40 by TeMPOraL on Tuesday January 27, 2026 @08:17AM (#46779562)
Hopefully if you sum enough of those SDS across different jurisdictions, the actual list of ingredients will come out. Though I guess it isn't that simple.
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