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Addressing Issues in GHS-Based Health Hazard Labeling

The ink industry is seeing differences between identical input raw materials in terms of how they are classified.

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By: DAVID SAVASTANO

Contributing Editor, Coatings World and Ink World

In 2012, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) integrated the Globally Harmonized System into the Hazard Communication Standard (GHS). Over time, there have been a number of revisions in the worldwide standards, impacting how products are labeled in different countries.    With the relative complexity of the GHS-based health hazard classification procedures that are now part of the OSHA hazard communication standard, the ink industry is seeing differences between identical inp...

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