Globally Harmonized System Chemicals

The United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) includes an internationally standardized guidance procedure on Transformation/Dissolution Protocol (T/DP) for metals and sparingly soluble metal compounds (United Nations, 2007), recently validated by the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development). To establish the acute aquatic hazard classification level of a metal-bearing substance under the GHS, data from the T/DP are compared with an acute ecotoxicity reference value (ERV) derived under conditions similar to those of the T/DP. 

United Nations. 2007. Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, ST/SG/AC. 10/30/Rev.2. 

ICSCs are a potential tool for the implementation of the Globally Harmonized System (GHS) for the labeling and classification of chemicals as they contain the necessary hazard data for this purpose. 

Current work on the new EU legislation for chemicals, REACH, as well as the implementahon of a Globally Harmonized System of Classihcation and Labeling of Chemicals (GHS) (Sechon 2.5) within the EU will lead to a major revision of the EU classihcation and labeling system. 

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United Nations Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and on the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labehng of Chemicals... 

GLC see Gas-liquid chromatography Globally harmonized system (GHS), chemicals classification, 745-6 Global Ozone Monitoring Experiment (GOME), 605... 

EU GHS (2011) Globally Harmonized System for classification, labeling and packaging of substances and mixtures, http //ec.europa.eu/ enterprise/sectors/chemicals/classification/ index en.htm. Accessed 24 Aug 2011... 

UN (2011) Globally harmonized system of classification and labelling of chemicals (GHS), 4th edn. United Nations, New York, elSBN 978-92-1-054745-1... 

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. 2004. Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). http //www.unece.org/trans/dan-ger/publi/ghs/ghs welcome e.html (accessed January 8, 2008). 

The Globally Harmonized System (GHS) of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals is an international standard for chemical classification and hazard communication that countries can use to establish comprehensive national chemical safety programmes. 

Students, workers, supervisors, managers, and administration should comply with the chemical safety management group/team. This is applicable to laboratories, university departments, factories, and industrial units where exposure to chemical substances is likely and precautions are necessary. People should be fully informed of the hazards involved and trained in appropriate safe working practices, globally harmonized system (GHS) for classification and labeling of chemicals, and first-aid measures. 

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