A safety data sheet is the document that travels with a chemical and tells everyone downstream what it is, what it can do to a person, and how to handle it. This page explains what that document contains, what the two MolGod versions of it are, what you receive, and — just as important — what the document does not guarantee and who remains legally responsible.
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Last updated: 27 August 2026.
1. What a safety data sheet is
In the European Union the safety data sheet (SDS) is defined by Regulation (EC) No 1907/2006 (REACH), Article 31 and Annex II, in the form given by Commission Regulation (EU) 2020/878. Hazard classification and labelling follow Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 (CLP).
The sheet is not marketing material and not a certificate. It is a structured technical communication from a supplier to the professional users downstream of them: what the substance is, how it is classified, what happens if it is spilled, burned, breathed or swallowed, how it must be stored and transported, and which rules apply to it. Its structure is fixed by law — sixteen sections, always the same, always in the same order, so that a reader can find section 8 without reading sections 1 to 7.
Annex II also requires that the sheet be compiled by a competent person, who takes into account the needs and knowledge of the audience the sheet is written for.
2. The sixteen sections of REACH Annex II
Every MolGod safety data sheet is issued in this structure, in this order, with no section omitted. Where a section has no data available for a given substance, the section is present and says so — an empty section is information, a missing section is a defect.
| No. | Section title | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Identification of the substance/mixture and of the company/undertaking | What this is, and who placed it on the market. Subsection 1.3 names your company. |
| 2 | Hazards identification | The CLP classification, hazard pictograms, signal word, H-statements and P-statements. |
| 3 | Composition/information on ingredients | Identity of the substance or the hazardous components of the mixture, with CAS and EC numbers. |
| 4 | First aid measures | What to do after inhalation, skin or eye contact, or ingestion, and what a doctor needs to know. |
| 5 | Firefighting measures | Suitable extinguishing media, special hazards during a fire, protection for firefighters. |
| 6 | Accidental release measures | Personal precautions, environmental precautions, containment and clean-up. |
| 7 | Handling and storage | Safe handling, incompatible materials, storage conditions. |
| 8 | Exposure controls/personal protection | Occupational limit values, engineering controls, gloves, eye and respiratory protection. |
| 9 | Physical and chemical properties | Appearance, melting and boiling point, flash point, density, solubility, vapour pressure and the rest. |
| 10 | Stability and reactivity | Conditions and materials to avoid, hazardous decomposition products. |
| 11 | Toxicological information | Acute toxicity, irritation, sensitisation, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, STOT. |
| 12 | Ecological information | Aquatic toxicity, persistence and degradability, bioaccumulation, mobility, PBT and vPvB assessment. |
| 13 | Disposal considerations | Waste treatment methods for the substance and for contaminated packaging. |
| 14 | Transport information | UN number, proper shipping name, transport hazard class, packing group, environmental hazards. |
| 15 | Regulatory information | Safety, health and environmental regulations specific to the substance; whether a chemical safety assessment has been carried out. |
| 16 | Other information | Full text of the H-statements, abbreviations, revision data, and the sources the sheet was built from. |
3. SDS Working Draft and Expert-Reviewed SDS
MolGod issues two documents for the same substance. They are not the same product at two prices — they do two different jobs, and the difference is stated on the face of each document.
| SDS Working Draft | Expert-Reviewed SDS | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | €49.99 per substance | €249.99 per substance |
| Also called | — | Expert-Reviewed SDS (on product pages) |
| Delivery | By e-mail as soon as generation completes | Within 72 hours of our receiving complete input from you |
| Prepared by | Generated automatically against ECHA CLP Annex VI and the reference datasets | The same generation, then read section by section by a qualified scientific reviewer with a degree in chemistry or a related scientific field |
| Signature | None. The document is unsigned and carries a visible working-draft watermark | Signed and dated by the reviewing specialist |
| Adapted to your company | No. Supplier-specific fields are left for you to complete | Yes. Your company identity in subsection 1.3, your product grade and specification, your identified uses, destination countries, languages, transport mode and emergency telephone number |
| Corrections | Not included | Five rounds of corrections applied to your instructions |
| Intended for | Internal drafting, pre-filling, gap-finding, checking a supplier sheet you already hold | Use as the sheet you supply to your own customers and present to an authority |
Read this twice before buying a draft. The SDS Working Draft is unsigned and watermarked precisely so that it is not mistaken for a finished supplier sheet. It is a working document. If you need a sheet to hand to a customer or an inspector, you need the Expert-Reviewed SDS.
4. What you receive
- A PDF, delivered by e-mail, in the sixteen-section Annex II structure, in the language you order it in.
- Classification read against ECHA CLP Annex VI first. Where a harmonised classification exists it outranks every other source, including supplier self-classification and database consensus.
- A citation for each stated value, naming the source it came from, so you can check the number at its origin instead of taking our word for it.
- Fields marked unavailable where the evidence does not support a value. We do not fill a gap with a plausible number. An honest blank is part of the product.
- A licence to use the document for your own regulatory and commercial purposes, including passing it down your own supply chain.
- For the Expert-Reviewed SDS: a signature and date, and five rounds of corrections applied to your instructions.
5. What the document does not guarantee
Stated plainly, because a supplier who is vague here is telling you something.
- It is not a certificate and not an approval. No safety data sheet is approved, stamped or issued by ECHA or by any authority. A sheet is a supplier document; it is judged if and when it is inspected.
- It does not guarantee acceptance by a particular inspector, customs post, marketplace or customer. Enforcement is a national competence and practice differs between Member States.
- It is only as accurate as the information you give us. Your product grade, purity, identified uses, destination markets and transport mode come from you. If those are wrong, the sheet is wrong, and it will be wrong in a way no external source can catch.
- It is a snapshot in time. CLP Annex VI is amended by Adaptations to Technical Progress. A sheet issued before an adaptation does not update itself. Keeping a catalogue current is a maintenance activity, not a one-off purchase.
- It is not legal advice and does not replace advice from a qualified adviser in your jurisdiction.
- It is not a chemical safety report, a registration dossier or an exposure scenario, and we do not act as anyone’s Only Representative.
- The SDS Working Draft additionally guarantees nothing about supplier-specific content, because it contains none. It is unsigned, watermarked, and not adapted to your company.
6. Who is responsible for compliance
Under REACH and CLP, the duty to supply a compliant safety data sheet rests on the supplier who places the substance or mixture on the market: the manufacturer, importer, downstream user or distributor, as the case may be. Buying a document from MolGod does not move that duty onto us and cannot do so — the obligation attaches to the person placing the product on the market, and no contract between us reassigns it.
In practice this means:
- You are the supplier named in subsection 1.3. The sheet identifies you, not us.
- You are responsible for the accuracy of what you tell us about the product and its uses. Section 4 of our Terms and Conditions lists exactly what we ask for and why.
- We are responsible for the work we do: for reading the classification against the authoritative source, for citing what each value came from, and for saying where the evidence stops rather than inventing a value. If the evidence does not support a defensible sheet, we tell you and you may take a refund, store credit or a written gap report — see the Refund and Returns Policy.
- Keeping the sheet current after issue is your call. We can maintain a catalogue for you under an annual arrangement, but a sheet you bought once does not renew itself.
7. What MolGod does not claim
- We are not a certification body, a notified body, an accreditation body or a public authority, and we are not approved, authorised, endorsed or accredited by ECHA or by any regulator.
- We do not describe our documents or our people as certified, licensed or accredited. In the European Union there is no formal certification scheme for the person who signs a safety data sheet, so no honest supplier can claim one. We state the qualification instead: a qualified scientific reviewer with a degree in chemistry or a related scientific field.
- We are not affiliated with, partnered with, endorsed by or acting on behalf of any AI company, search engine, marketplace or platform.
- We do not sell, supply, store, handle or ship chemical substances. Naming a substance in our catalogue identifies the subject of a document; it is not an offer to supply the substance.
8. Where to start
The cheapest way to judge us is not to buy anything. Send us a safety data sheet you already hold and we will read all sixteen sections against REACH Annex II and CLP and reply with a written verdict, free of charge. If the sheet is fine, you have learned that for nothing.
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