SEL Chemie B.V. pays much attention to the safety of its products.
Therefore, the products that need a child safety cap are provided with one
and we state safety regulations on all the labels. We advise you to start
with reading this label carefully and to keep the products away from children.
It is important that, when confronted with an incident involving the swallowing
of one of the products, you do not try to induce vomiting. You must immediately
consult a doctor and show the packaging.
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REACH is a new European regulation for chemical substances. The
acronym stands for Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction
of Chemical substances. The regulation came into force on 1 June 2007.
The core of the regulation is that a company that produces, processes or
transfers chemical substances to customers must in principle be aware of the
risks of all those substances, must provide information about measures to
manage those risks, and must also carry out those measures in the own
company. REACH has shifted the onus of proof for the safe production, safe
trading and safe use of chemical substances from government to industry.
REACH applies not only to the producers and importers of chemicals but
to all those companies that use chemical substances, substances in
preparations or substances in objects. There will be a registration system
for substances and substances used in preparations that will be valid for
the whole of the EU. A technical dossier must be prepared for each
registration with prescribed details about the properties of the substance,
volume, use, exposure and so on. Parties who wish to register the same
substance must share their details about the properties of the substance
with each other. A chemical safety report must also be drawn up in which the
risks are described on the basis of these details and from this measures to
control those risks are taken.
Sel Chemie B.V. is at present
preparing to comply with all the requirements. Raw materials that are
purchased and products that are sold to customers will comply with the
requirements that are prescribed by REACH. More information is available
through the email address
info@selchemie.com
Because of the decision of the EU commission of 28 May 2009 concerning the amendment of Directive 76/769/EEC some important changes are necessary:
Per 1st December 2010 following rules concerning the packaging of lampoil clear, grill liquid and torch oil if sold to the general public have to be implemented:
Products have to be packaged in black opaque containers not exceeding 1 litre.
Following sentences have to be added to the labels:
Label lamp oil clear:
"Keep lamps filled with this liquid out of the reach of children"
"Just a sip of lamp oil - or even sucking the wick of lamps - may lead to life-threatening lung damage"
Label torch oil clear:
"Keep torches filled with this liquid out of the reach of children"
"Just a sip of torch oil - or even sucking the wick of torches - may lead to life-threatening lung damage"
Label grill liquid:
"Just a sip of grill lighter may lead to life-threatening lung damage"
Packaging that does not comply with the above mentioned rules may not be sold anymore to the general public after 1st December 2010.
For more information go to:
EU Decision 28-5-2009
All the languages of the EU member states can be found on this website.
Due to the new Reach Regulation 1907/2006 and the connected EU-GHS/CLP Regulation 1272/2008 there are a number of important changes coming up for the Classification, Labelling and Packaging;
The new Regulation for substances is due for production from 1st December 2010 onwards;
The R & S (Risk & Safety) sentences on the labels need to be changed in H & P (Hazard and Precautionary) sentences.
The actual pictograms need to be replaced by new ones. Because of a change in the classification of the chemical substances it might be that a pictogram needs to be removed from or added to a label. Also extra sentences with EUH-statements (for special hazards) need to be added.
There is a transitional periode for the selling of goods with old labels;
for substances until 1st December 2012
UNTIL 1ST DECEMBER 2010 THE LABELS CAN BE CHANGED.
UNTIL 1ST DECEMBER 2012 GOODS WITH OLD LABELLING MAY STILL BE PRESENT IN SHOPS AND WAREHOUSES. THIS IS NOT ALLOWED ANYMORE AFTER THAT DATE!
As soon as Sel Chemie B.V. will be informed by her suppliers about the registration and classification of the chemical substances, she will inform her customers by return.
The new regulation for mixtures is due from 1st June 2015 onwards and there is also a transitional period for the selling of goods with old labels;
for mixtures until 1st June 2017
(See our website for additional information)
For more information about the EU-GHS/CLP Regulation:
SenterNovem - GHS
Het wereldwijd geharmoniseerde systeem van indeling en etikettering van chemische stoffen en Verordening nr. 1272/2008
http://www.lne.be/themas/veiligheidsrapportage/gevaarlijke-stoffen/ghs
http://ec.europa.eu/enterprise/reach/ghs/index_en.htm
http://www.baua.de/de/Themen-von-A-Z/Gefahrstoffe/Einstufung-und-Kennzeichnung/GHS/GHS.html?__nnn=true&__nnn=true
http://www.umweltbundesamt.at/umweltschutz/chemikalien/
http://www.bag.admin.ch/themen/chemikalien/00531/00533/index.html?lang=de