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Peanut Butter!

Peanut Butter!

Peanut Butter!

(OP)
I have a warehouse for storage of peanut butter. Peter Pan to be specific. :)

Peanut butter is in plastic jars like you see on the grocery shelves.  Jars are on wooden pallets that are band wrapped with a layer of cardboard at the top.  Pallets are in conventional back-to-back racks having a top of storage height of 22'.

Sprinklers.

I want to say it is a Class IV commodity but am not sure.

RE: Peanut Butter!

I'll assume the peanut butter has < 50% oil and that the packaging is HD polyethylene. Class III based on Table A.5.6.3 of the 2002 NFPA 13 and assuming the stored product is similar to margarine. Its a food product so unless it has a high volume of oil, I have generally classified these as Class III commodities.

RE: Peanut Butter!

(OP)
Thanks!

Margarine
 - Up to 50 percent oil (in paper or plastic containers)
Class III
 - Between 50 percent and 80 percent oil (in any packaging)
Group A plastics

Now all I have to do is find out the oil content but I am covered anyway as I bid the project as a Group A plastic. I remember high school chemistry when we burned a peanut to determine the calories.  Peanuts burn better then you might think.

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