Skip to content
CarCareTruth

Health — sensitization

H317

“May cause an allergic skin reaction”

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

How this code is assigned

GHS classSkin sensitization, Categories 1 / 1A / 1B
CriterionAssigned to substances that produce skin sensitization in a substantial proportion of exposed people, or based on positive results in defined animal tests.

Summary of the classification criterion the standard itself uses to assign H317. Not a safety recommendation from CarCareTruth.

Source

H317 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 H317

Listed because the manufacturer’s own published Safety Data Sheet identifies H317as a hazard statement for the product. Don’t see your product? Find its SDS.

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.