What a Poison Centre Notification is...
Article 45 and Annex VIII to the CLP Regulation harmonise poison centres throughout the EU. This legislation came into force on 1 January 2021, introducing several significant changes and imposing obligations on companies that supply hazardous chemicals.
As a result, importers and downstream users must provide poison centres with information on mixtures classified as hazardous on the basis of their health and physical effects.
The CLP Regulation obligates companies to provide all the countries in which they place such mixtures on the market with information on the mixture’s product category, complete chemical composition, toxicological information and UFI code, among other things.
...and why it is necessary
The harmonisation of Poison Centre Notifications (PCN) will contribute to product safety throughout the EU. As a result, every poison centre in the countries in which the product is marketed within the EU will have the necessary information and instructions on the mixtures’ composition and hazardous characteristics in the event of a poisoning, for example.