Registrations for Chemicals Exported to China     

By Zhou Houyun and Ge Xiaojun, CNCIC Chemical HSE Registration Affairs Department
(Continues page 12 of issue 11)

2.4 "One data sheet" and "one tag" system

Producers of hazardous chemicals should put a safety data sheet totally in conformity with hazardous chemicals in the packaging of hazardous chemicals and stick or hang a safety tag totally in conformity with hazardous chemicals on the packaging (including outer packaging).
   When producers of hazardous chemicals discover any new harmful properties of hazardous chemicals they produce, they should immediately make them public and revise the safety data sheet and the safety tag in time.

2.5 Registration system

Since the issuance of the "Circular for the All-round Unfolding of the Work on the Registration of Hazardous Chemicals" (2005, No.155 document) by the State Administration of Work Safety on October 20th, 2005, China has achieved breakthrough advances on the registration of hazardous chemicals. (to be continued)