
Safety Data sheets (SDS)
SDS services with expertise: Safety Data Sheets and regulatory notifications from Sweco experts
We prepare safety data sheets (SDS), chemical notifications, classifications, and packaging labels efficiently and professionally on your behalf.
A Safety Data Sheet (SDS) is a legally required document through which the supplier of a chemical provides information on its properties, hazards, and safe use for industrial and professional applications.
We produce safety data sheets in accordance with Finnish and EU legislation. Our experts can prepare SDSs based on the client’s product formulation or the supplier’s existing safety data sheet. With our professional expertise, we can create international SDSs in multiple languages, taking into account local content requirements. Our services also include the translation of exposure scenarios.
We also prepare CLP-compliant packaging labels (model labels) for products.
We prepare and maintain companies’ chemical and quantity notifications as well as chemical inventories in the KemiDigi service maintained by the Finnish Safety and Chemicals Agency (Tukes).
A Poison Centre Notification (PCN) applies to mixtures classified as hazardous to health or presenting physical hazards. EU importers and downstream users are required to submit information on such mixtures to the Member States where the mixture is placed on the market. Sweco’s experts advise companies on PCN obligations and prepare the required poison centre notifications in the portal maintained by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA). Sweco can also generate UFI codes for products and set up an ECHA account for the company, if needed.
The Classification and Labelling (C&L) Inventory is a database maintained by the European Chemicals Agency that contains information on the classification and labelling of chemicals in the European Union. The C&L database provides information on chemical hazards and risks.
Manufacturers and importers of substances, as well as importers of mixtures and articles, must ensure their obligation to submit notifications on substances to the C&L Inventory. Sweco’s experts assist in identifying these obligations and in submitting the necessary information to the inventory.
The EU Chemicals Strategy and the CLP hazard classification reform support Europe’s zero‑pollution objective
New hazard classes have been added to Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 on classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (the CLP Regulation), including classes for endocrine disruptors as well as for chemicals that are persistent in the environment, bioaccumulate in the food chain, or are prone to widespread environmental dispersion.
Auli Kostamo
Chemical safetyMilja Honkanen
Chemical safety