Introduction to MSDS
MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet) is chemical safety data sheet, which can also be translated into chemical safety data sheet or chemical safety data sheet. The main contents include physical and chemical parameters of hazardous substances, hazardous properties, toxicity parameters, exposure limits, health and environment. harm.
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MSDS is a comprehensive legal document about chemical characteristics provided by chemical production or sales enterprises to customers as required by law. It provides 16 items such as physical and chemical parameters of chemicals, explosive performance, health hazards, safe use and storage, leakage disposal, first aid measures and relevant laws and regulations. At present, a document similar to MSDS prepared by the International Programme on Chemical Safety, the International Chemical Safety Card (ICSC). Similar to MSDS, ICSC outlines information on the health and safe use of chemicals. Today, 1,300 chemicals are registered with ICSC. Besides English, ICSC is also translated into 13 other languages. However, ICSC has no government agency regulations on chemicals management, and at the same time, some warning standard words (R-Phrases) are not applicable in some countries. Therefore, ICSC is not a legal document, and it cannot replace the MSDS currently circulating internationally.
The position of MSDS in international trade
The laws of developed countries such as the United States and Europe have extremely strict requirements on the environment and occupational health. In the international trade of chemicals, customers often ask suppliers for MSDS before purchasing chemicals.
In compliance with legal requirements, suppliers will promptly provide MSDSs that meet the requirements of the laws and regulations of the country where the customer is located. In the United States, Canada and European countries, some large and medium-sized enterprises have set up hazardous chemical management departments or occupational health and environmental science management departments to review the MSDS provided by chemical suppliers. One step business contact.