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Notice of China GHS on soliciting opinions on the Code for Classification and Labeling of Chemicals Part 1: General Principles
Posted Date:2023/9/8 1
On June 14, 2023, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology issued a notice on soliciting opinions on the mandatory national standards of the "Classification and Labeling of Chemicals Part 1: General Provisions" (soliciting comments draft) in the National Standards Information Public service platform.
The national standard plan "Classification and Labeling of chemicals Part 1: General Principles" was drafted by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and entrusted to the "National Technical Committee for Standardization of Hazardous Chemicals Management". Proposed implementation date: 3 months after the release of the official implementation.
GB 3000.1 20XX "Specification for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals Part 1: General Principles" will replace: GB 13690-2009 when officially released. The new regulations are in line with the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) (eighth Revision) on technology.
The main changes of this regulation compared with GB 13690-2009 are as follows:
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Modified the standard name, the Chinese name is changed to "classification and labelling of chemicals Part 1: General Principles", the English name is changed to "Rules for classification and labelling of chemicals - Part 1: General specifications”
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The content of "Scope" in Chapter 1 has been modified, replacing "this standard" with "this document", and "Chemical classification and its hazard publicity" with "Chemical hazard classification, labeling and chemical safety Technical Specification".
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Amended the guidance language of Chapter 2 "Normative Reference documents", updated the reference documents, and added "the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (eighth Revision)" and "the United Nations Model Regulations for Recommendations on the Transport of Dangerous Goods (twentieth revision)" as the reference documents, Deleted referenced files GB/T 22272 to GB/T 22278.
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Adjusted terms and definitions
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The provisions for the classification of chemical hazards have been adjusted: 4.1.1 Types of hazards a) Desensitized explosives have been added to the physical hazards
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Chapter 5 "5.1 Hazard Publicity: Labeling", "5.2 Assignment of Labeling Elements", "5.3 Sequence of Multiple Hazards and Hazardous Information", "5.4 Display Arrangement of GHS Labeling Elements", "5.5 Special Labeling Arrangement" as Chapter 5 "Hazard Publicity: Labeling"
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Section 5 "5.6 Hazard Publicity: Safety Data Sheet (SDS)" as Section 6 "Hazard Publicity: Chemical Safety Technical Specification (SDS)"
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Deleted informative Appendix A "Example Precautions"
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Added informative Appendix A "Definitions and abbreviations specified in GHS"
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Deleted informative Appendix B "Pictograph of protective measures"
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Removed informative Appendix C "GHS Label Sample"
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Deleted informative Appendix D "Minimum Information on safety data sheet"
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Summary: China's original GHS standard refers to the fourth revised version of the United Nations GHS, which was released in 2013: GB30000.2-2013 ~ GB30000.29-2013 (missing GB 30000.1), and now China's GHS regulations have finally been revised, and the new regulations refer to the eighth version. The publication of the consultation draft of the new regulation means that the implementation of the new regulation is not far away, and the latest version of the Joint GHS is currently 9th.