Health — acute

H304

“May be fatal if swallowed and enters airways”

Official hazard statement, UN GHS Rev. 9 (2021), Annex 3.

How this code is assigned

GHS classAspiration hazard, Category 1

CriterionAssigned to hydrocarbons and similar substances with kinematic viscosity ≤ 20.5 mm²/s at 40 °C.

Summary of the classification criterion the standard itself uses to assign H304. Not a safety recommendation from CarCareTruth.

Source

H304 is a hazard statement defined in Annex 3 of the United Nations Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), Revision 9 (2021). The text above is quoted verbatim from that standard.

CarCareTruth publishes the official statement and a restatement of the standard’s own classification criterion. We do not add safety recommendations, severity judgments, or interpretation of what action a user should take. For full regulatory context, consult the published standard or the product’s own Safety Data Sheet (Section 2).

Products on CarCareTruth whose published SDS includes H304

Listed because the manufacturer’s own published Safety Data Sheet identifies H304 as a hazard statement for the product.

Sources: United Nations, Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS), Rev. 9 (2021), Annex 3 for the hazard-statement text. Product associations are taken verbatim from Section 2 of the Safety Data Sheet published by each product’s manufacturer. CarCareTruth does not add interpretation to GHS hazard codes.