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CLP is the European implementation of the international system called GHS (Globally Harmonized System). GHS has been prepared as a standardization of many classification and labelling systems of chemical products applied worldwide.
The decision on creating GHS has been made at the United Nations conference in 1992. Having performed enormous technical work related to creation of harmonized criteria, GHS has been published in 2002. Transitional period of the new regulation ended on December 1st, 2010. Within the last months, all manufacturers and importers of chemical substances and preparations were forced to adapt their own classification and labelling to new CLP requirements.
Since December 1st, 2010, Avantor Performance Materials Poland S.A. has introduced a label with new typography.
The most important changes on the label:
- Changed pictograms: now black symbol on white background with red square border set at a point,
- "R" phrases specifying the type of hazard changed to "H" phrases - hazard statements,
- "S" phrases specifying the conditions of safe use of hazardous substance
or hazardous preparation changed to "P" phrases - precautionery statements,
- Warning inscriptions, accompanying the pictograms, have been removed,
- Signal words "Warning" or "Danger" has been introduced.
Example of Avantor Performance Materials Poland S.A. labels:
POCH brand:
Avantor Performance Materials Poland BASIC brand:
LABSCAN brand:
Explanations:
1 - name of the product in basic language
2 - purity in basic language
3 - catalogue number
4 - name of the product in additional language
5 - series No.
6 - validity date
7 - weight (volume) of the substance
8 - signal word: "H" phrases - hazard statements and "P" phrases precautionery statements:
8 a - in basic language
8 b - in additional language(s)
9 - warning pictograms indicating the type of hazard
10 - UN No. - identification number of the hazardous material
11 - class and packaging group of hazardous material acc. to ADR (ADR - European agreement concerning the international road transportation of hazardous goods)
12 - quality specification
13 - manufacture date.
The labels may contain the following pictograms of warning marks:
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PHYSICAL HAZARDS
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o Explosive
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o Flammable
o Self-reactive
substances and mixtures Pyrophoric
o Organic
peroxides
o Self-heating
substances and mixtures Substances and mixtures, which in contact with water,
emit flammable gases
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o Gases
under pressure
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o Oxidizing
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o Corroding
to metals
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HEALTH HAZARDS
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Respiratory sensitisation, hazard category
1
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Germ cell mutagenicity, hazard categories
1A, 1B, 2
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Carcinogenicity, hazard categories 1A, 1B,
2
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Reproductive toxicity, hazard categories
1A, 1B, 2
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Specific Target Organ Toxicity — Single
exposure, hazard categories 1, 2
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Specific Target Organ Toxicity — Repeated
exposure, hazard categories 1, 2
o Aspiration
hazard, hazard category 1
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Acute toxicity (oral, dermal, inhalation),
hazard category 4
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Skin irritation, hazard category 2
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Eye irritation, hazard category 2
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Skin sensitisation, hazard category 1
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Specific Target Organ Toxicity — Single
exposure, hazard category 3
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Respiratory
tract irritation
o Narcotic
effects
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o acute
toxicity cat. 1, 2, 3
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Skin corrosion, hazard categories 1A, 1B,
1C
o Serious
eye damage, hazard category 1
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HAZARD
TO AQUEOUS ENVIRONMENT
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Hazardous to the aquatic environment—
Acute hazard category 1
o —
Chronic hazard categories 1, 2
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Substances labelled according to the Directive 67/548/EEC (before CLP) may be present on the market since December 1st, 2012, whereas mixes identified according to Directive 1999/45/EC - since June 1st, 2017.
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