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In depth, plain English guides on chemical identity, safety, regulation and trade. Written from primary sources and kept up to date.
Illustrative imageFeatured guideSafety
A section by section method to pull the essentials out of any 16 section SDS: identity, hazards, composition, storage, PPE, properties, transport and emergency measures.
Regulation
What EU REACH requires, why non EU manufacturers use an only representative, tonnage bands, joint registration, exemptions, SDS and label duties, and practical steps.
Trade and logistics
How the UN dangerous goods system works for chemicals, from the nine classes and UN numbers to packing groups, UN packaging marks, labels, documents and segregation.
Regulation
One time registrations, export controls such as SCOMET and precursor rules, destination country requirements, documents, shipping bill filing, payment and incentives.
Regulation
The registrations, import policy checks, product specific licences, duties and documents you need to import chemicals into India, step by step.
Trade and logistics
How the Harmonized System classifies chemicals, the chapters that matter, the rules for chemically defined compounds and mixtures, and practical steps to find the right code.
Trade and logistics
The eleven Incoterms 2020 rules from a chemical buyer's point of view, with the traps around CIF insurance, FOB for containers, EXW exports, DDP imports and dangerous goods.
Safety
A practical guide to the nine GHS pictograms, the signal words Danger and Warning, H and P statements, and how to read a chemical label in seconds.
Chemical identity
What a CAS number identifies, how the check digit works, why one chemical can have several numbers and what a CAS number cannot tell you about a product.
Free chemistry tools
Calculators and references that run in your browser, no sign-up needed
Chemical trade glossary
Plain definitions of GHS, Incoterms, grades, regulatory and lab terms
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