Basic Introduction

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. It is used by chemical manufacturers and importers to clarify the physical and chemical properties of chemicals (such as pH value, flash point, flammability, reactivity, etc.) and the possible harm to the health of users (such as carcinogenicity, teratogenicity, etc.) One document.

In European countries, Material Safety Technology/Data Sheet MSDS is also called Safety Technology/Data Sheet SDS (Safety Data Sheet). The International organization for Standardization (ISO) uses the SDS term, while the United States, Canada, Australia, and many countries in Asia use the MSDS term. 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. MSDS can be prepared by the manufacturer according to relevant rules. However, in order to ensure the accuracy and standardization of the report, you can apply to a professional organization for the preparation.

SDS Difference

• Both the European Union and the International organization for Standardization (ISO) use SDS terminology, but in the United States, Canada, SDS marks;

• In Australia and many countries in Asia, SDS (Safety Data Sheet) can also be used as MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheet), and the functions of the two technical documents are basically the same.

In my country, the standard GBT16483-2000 before 2008 was called CSDS, and the revised standard GBT16483-2008 "Chemical Safety Data Sheet Content and Item Sequence" in 2008 was unified with the International organization for Standardization, abbreviated as SDS. The two abbreviations SDS and MSDS play exactly the same role in the supply chain, with only some minor differences in content.

What is SDS?

SDS (Safety Data Sheet) is a safety data sheet, which is a comprehensive document about chemical composition information, physicochemical properties, hazard identification, safe use measures, storage information, transportation measures and other information. It is the transmission of material information in the supply chain. It is also one of the main ways of information transmission and one of the information transmission carriers required by the EU REACH regulation.

REACH regulations require suppliers to provide all downstream users and distributors with the SDS of the substances or preparations that meet the hazard classification criteria when they send a substance or preparation for the first time. The hazard information and safety protection recommendations of chemicals contained in SDS can provide professional users with necessary measures for human health and environmental safety protection.

Which products require SDS?

• Substances or preparations classified as dangerous according to EU Directive 67/548/EEC or 1999/45/EC;

• Substances determined to be persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic (PBT) or highly persistent, highly bioaccumulative (vPvB) according to the criteria specified in Annex XIII of the EU REACH Regulation;

• Preparations that are not classified as hazardous but contain hazardous substances.

Or when the product does not meet the above conditions, but the importer requires it or the industry has stricter requirements for product substance classification and labelling, the enterprise also needs to pass SDS on its supply chain.

Lithium battery products need to use MSDS/SDS report when applying for UN38.3 (transport identification report).