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Hazard Alert: What is the GHS?
September 15, 2017
Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals—better known as GHS—was put in place to standardize the way we classify and label chemicals. It also simplifies the approach to defining physical, health and environmental hazards of chemicals. Although many countries already had regulatory systems in place for communicating hazardous information regarding chemicals, the differences were enough that they required multiple classifications, labels and…
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