The Classification Process
Chemical manufacturers and importers must follow a formal classification process to determine health hazards, physical hazards, and the degree of hazard. The steps in the process include the following:
The manufacturer must identify, analyze, and categorize hazards.
- Identify: Review the relevant data regarding the hazards of a chemical. There is no requirement to test the chemical to determine how to classify its hazards.
- Analyze: Compare and analyze the data to ascertain the hazards associated with the chemical; and
- Categorize: Decide whether the chemical will be classified as hazardous according to the definition of hazardous chemicals.
Mixtures
To classify mixtures, chemical manufacturers and importers may rely on the information provided on the current safety data sheets of the individual chemical ingredients except where the chemical manufacturer or importer knows, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence should know, that the safety data sheet mis-states or omits information.
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1-10. To classify mixtures, chemical manufacturers and importers may rely on the information provided on the _____.
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