Spotlight on Regulatory Updates
What You Need to Know
CLP-The European format of GHS
Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP, legislation 1272/2008/EU) is the EU’s adoption of the UN GHS. It is a chemical regulation that seeks to protect human health, ecosystems and the environment whilst maintaining worldwide trade. Background to harmonisation of world chemical regulation Awareness existed that different countries classified the same chemical in different ways. These differences...
Confused by CLP and GHS?
Classification, Labelling and Packaging (CLP) is a chemical regulation that seeks to protect human health, ecosystems and the environment whilst maintaining worldwide trade. Over the years, the United Nations have developed harmonised criteria for classification and labelling of dangerous/hazardous chemicals. The result was called the Globally Harmonised System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (UN...
CLP Regulations Change -Food/Feed ingredients no longer exempt
Change in the applicability of CLP RegulationsFood Additives¦labeling and CLP mean food and feed ingredients not in their finished state are no longer exempt Before the 2nd of July 2012 food and feed ingredients not in their final state were exempt from the Classification Labeling and Packaging Regulations according to the FAQ’s published on the...
CLP/GHS – When a pictogram paints a thousand words
CLP/GHS applies to you if you manufacture or import chemical substances or mixtures. Hazardous substances or mixtures must have a label that includes the following elements; General Rules Name, address and telephone number of the supplier (s); Nominal quantity of the substance or mixture in the package made available to the general public, unless this...
Managing REACH & CLP: Your Essential Guide to 2013
On the 21st of June 2012 at the Ryan Academy in Dublin, H2 Compliance and Reach Ready combine expertise and experience to deliver a one day event like no other. The main aim of this event is to help regulatory managers, practitioners, manufacturers and importers of substances into Europe to understand more about substance registration...