Your European customer said this. Here is what they mean, what it takes to satisfy it, and what it costs.
What they actually mean
A sheet written to another jurisdiction’s GHS implementation is not one translation away from working here. The sixteen-section skeleton looks the same, which is exactly why this surprises people, but the EU version requires content that no template outside the EU generates: the supplemental hazard statements, exposure limits from the destination country’s own national act, restriction and authorisation status under EU law, and — where the substance is registered — the exposure values that come out of that registration process.
It is a different legal document, not a translated one. That is why a good translator produces a document that fails, and why the work costs what it costs.
Draft €49.99 · reviewed and signed €249.99, per substance, per language.
How long this takes
A working draft is in your inbox immediately after checkout. A reviewed and signed card is issued within 72 hours of complete input. If your customer gave you a deadline, tell us what it is — we will say the same day whether it is possible rather than discovering it together on day three.
What we need from you
The CAS number. The destination country. The mode of transport. The commercial form and grade you actually ship. That is enough to start; anything else we need, we will ask for once.
Before you order, send us what you already have
Three sheets, free, one working day. It costs you nothing to find out whether the document you hold can be repaired instead of replaced — and sometimes it can.
Questions people ask before they order
Can I just translate the safety data sheet I already have?
No. A sheet written to another GHS implementation is not one translation away from a European one. Section 2 has to carry a classification read against CLP, section 8 national exposure limits, and section 15 the law of the destination country. Those sections have no equivalent to translate from.
Is an American or Chinese GHS sheet accepted in the European Union?
Not as it stands. GHS is a common framework that each region implements with its own choices, so the same substance can carry a different classification in two compliant sheets. Your European customer needs the European reading of it.
Will customs accept the document?
Nobody can honestly promise that, and anyone who does is selling something worth reading carefully. What we can say is narrower and checkable: we remove the defects that enforcement most commonly records, and every value in the sheet carries the source it came from.
What do you need from me?
The CAS number, the grade you sell, the identified use and the destination market. Composition and impurities come from you and are reproduced as supplied — we do not test your material and cannot confirm what is physically in your container.
What if my substance is not in your catalogue?
Send the CAS number anyway. The register behind the site holds 4,168 harmonised entries, which is far more than the catalogue shows, and the answer for a substance we have never sold is the same as for one we have.