Guide to chemical hazard classification: Part 2, mixtures
You must classify chemical substances and mixtures before they are placed on the market. This guide tells you how the classification processes works for mixtures.
Guide to chemical hazard classification: Part 1, substances
You must classify chemical substances and mixtures before they are placed on the market. This guide tells you how the classification processes work. Substance classification is usually achieved through testing, although structure–activity relationships may also help. There are also inventories of hazard classification, that simplify substance classification.
How to write a good safety data sheet
This article covers the main facets of GB and EU SDSs that require attention during compilation to give not only a compliant SDS that will pass inspection, but also prove useful.
Harmonised classification of ethanol
The harmonised classification of alcohol (ie ethanol) in the EU would mandate the warnings: ‘Suspected of damaging the unborn child’, ‘may cause harm to breast-fed children’, and ‘may cause damage to organs through prolonged or repeated exposure’. Are such warnings justified? What would be the consequences? Will alcohol-based hand gel need such warnings?
New GB-CLP regulation and GB safety data sheets
This article examines the new UK regulatory landscape for classification, labelling and packaging of chemicals under GB CLP.
New UK-REACH regulation
UK chemical companies will have to comply with a new UK-REACH regulation, which became effective in January 2021
SVHCs in Articles and the SCIP database
This post informs you of new requirements to notify articles (eg machine parts) that contain substances of very high concern to the European Chemicals Agency.
Safety data sheets for candles and diffusers
This article looks at requirements for hazard classification, labelling and safety data sheet provision for makers of candles and diffusers in the EU and UK.
Brexit update: two months to UK-REACH
This post updates you on the UK REACH Regulation, the Government’s main instrument for gathering hazard information for forming UK chemical policy post Brexit.
Can you author a safety data sheet or product label for worldwide use?
We are regularly asked to provide an SDS for use world-wide. If you want to sell your chemical product into an industrialised country it will follow the UN GHS for hazard classification, SDS format, and label content. However, many national variations mean that harmonisation is not a reality.
Alchemy Compliance 