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Free audit of your SDS card
Send us the safety data sheet you ship with today. We read it against REACH Annex II and CLP, and answer the question that decides whether your pallet moves or waits: will this document survive an inspection?
Why a sheet that looks fine still fails
A rejected safety data sheet is rarely empty. It is usually complete, well formatted and simply out of date — written against a regulation that has since been amended. Classification in the EU moves with every ATP to CLP; a card issued before the amendment keeps stating a classification that no longer matches the register. The document reads as professional. The inspector reads it as wrong.
The second common cause is narrower and more expensive: section 14. Transport information is the part a customs officer and a carrier actually compare against the shipping papers. A missing packing group or an absent UN number stops the consignment even when the other fifteen sections are flawless.
What the audit covers
Structure
All sixteen sections present, in the order REACH Annex II prescribes, with the required subsections. Missing subsections are named individually, not counted.
Classification
Section 2 checked against CLP Annex VI. Where the substance carries a harmonised entry, the harmonised classification is binding — we report every divergence in both directions, under- and over-classification.
Identity
CAS and EC numbers verified, including the CAS check digit. Index number cross-read against the register entry. Mismatched identifiers are the quietest defect in the whole document.
Transport
Section 14 against ADR, IMDG and IATA: UN number, proper shipping name, class, packing group, environmental hazard. This is the section that stops shipments.
Currency
Revision date against the ATP in force. A card older than the amendment that changed your substance is reported as expired, with the ATP number that overtook it.
Language and issuer
Whether the language matches what the destination authority accepts, and whether the supplier block carries an identifiable EU contact. Both are refusal grounds on their own.
What you get back
A written report, in plain sentences, that a non-chemist in your logistics team can act on. It contains:
- A verdict per section — passes, incomplete, or contradicts the register. Sixteen lines, no score hiding the detail.
- The exact wording that is wrong, quoted from your document, with what it should say instead.
- A customs risk statement — whether we would expect this card to be accepted at the border you named, and on what grounds it could be refused.
- What we could not determine, stated openly. Where public sources disagree about a substance, we say they disagree rather than picking the convenient one.
We do not return a corrected sheet as part of the free audit. The audit tells you what is broken; repairing it is the paid service, and you are free to repair it yourself or with anyone else.
How to send it
- 1
Attach the PDF to an e-mail addressed to [email protected]. One substance per message keeps the reply readable.
- 2
Add three lines: the CAS number, the destination country, and the mode of transport. Without them the transport verdict is guesswork and we will not guess.
- 3
Wait one working day. The report comes back by e-mail. If your sheet is sound, we write that it is sound — a clean audit is a legitimate outcome and we have no interest in inventing defects.
If the audit finds problems
Two ways to fix it
A working draft for €49.99 gives you a usable, referenced sheet immediately — the right document while the paperwork is still moving. A signed card for €249.99 is issued within 72 hours and carries a signature, for the moment somebody official asks who stands behind the document.
Limits worth stating in advance
The audit reads the document you send. It does not test your substance, does not visit your plant, and cannot confirm that the material in the drum matches the sheet on the drum. Where a hazard depends on a property nobody has published, no document can close that gap and we will say so rather than fill it.
Free audits are handled in the order they arrive. Large catalogues are welcome, but send the first three sheets before the other three hundred — the pattern of defects repeats, and you will usually know after three what the whole set needs.