CHEMICAL LABEL CONVENTION
December 1st, 2002
BY KEITH NUTHALLAN EXPERT United Nations committee has adopted a new global labelling and classification system for chemicals, designed to prevent the mismanagement of hazardous and dangerous substances. The system agreed by the UN Committee of Experts on the Transport of Dangerous Goods and the Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals uses universally understandable pictogram-based labels. The UN Economic Commission for Europe said: "Through the different steps from their production to their handling, transport and use, chemicals ...
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