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GHS Labelling Compliance

Manufacturers Adapt to GHS Labelling Requirements with QuickLabel Digital Label Printers In-House

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Deadline for European GHS Compliance:
December 1, 2010 (for substances)

As the UN Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals changes product labelling laws around the world, manufacturers of chemical products will be required to make changes to their labels to comply with GHS labelling standards.

Owners of a QuickLabel digital colour label printer will enjoy a seamless transition to compliance with GHS labelling, wih the ability to print the required pictograms in the required colours on their primary display labels and secondary package labels, whether they need GHS labels for pharmaceuticals, GHS labels for cleansers and industrial chemicals, or GHS labels for pesticides.

Print GHS Labels in Full Colour with QuickLabel Printers

GHS compliant labels can be printed in the same printing process as full-colour product photos and brand graphics are printed with the toner-based production-capacity Vivo! digital colour label press.

To print secondary labels that meet the requirement that chemical labels have a minimum of two colours. QuickLabel Systems also offers the Plexo! Family of 2-colour thermal transfer label printers that allows chemical manufacturers and distributors to quickly print labels in any two colours. The Plexo! Family consists of digital label printers much like a barcode printer, except that it can print text, barcodes, symbols, logos, and other graphics in two colours instead of just a single color. Label colours are printed with the use of thermal transfer ribbon, a kind of dry printing ink.

Print GHS Pictograms on Labels

With your own digital colour label printers, you can print any required GHS label pictograms in any colour. GHS labelling pictograms may be red and black, red and yellow, red and white, red, black, and white, orange and black, green and black, green and white, blue and black, blue and white, black and white, or yellow. Your QuickLabel colour label printer can easily print each colour code label.

Print GHS Compliant Labels Instantly

As soon as a product label design has been approved, finished labels can be printed in minutes. A QuickLabel colour label printer is the most cost-effective way to print GHS labels fast. Chemical producers with QuickLabel printers will not experience delays in packaging or shipping products after adopting GHS labelling standards.

GHS Compliant Label Materials

GHS labels must be chemical-resistant, abrasion-resistant, UV light resistant, weather-resistant, and must utilize a marine-grade label adhesive in order to satisfy GHS label standards for permanence. QuickLabel sells several compliant GHS label stocks. We will give you a GHS label quote in any label size.

What are GHS Labelling Requirements?

GHS labels must include: a product identifier; a signal word (either Category 1 “Warning” or Category 2 “Danger”), standardized hazard statements corresponding to health, physical, and environmental hazard class, hazard symbols/hazard pictograms, precautionary statements, and the name, address, and the telephone number of the chemical manufacturer, importer, or other responsible party

About GHS Labelling

GHS has been adopted in Europe and is in the process of adoption in the United States, Canada, and many other industrialized nations. The goal of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) is to create a single way to describe and classify chemical hazards on product labels and chemical Safety Data Sheets (SDS) used everywhere in the world. With standardized label content in the form of standardized chemical classifications, standardized hazard statements, standardized signal words, and standardized graphic symbols and colours, producers, workers, and consumers in every country will share an understanding of the potential human health hazards posed by chemicals.