Health — acute

H318

“Causes serious eye damage”

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

How this code is assigned

GHS classSerious eye damage / eye irritation, Category 1

CriterionAssigned to substances that produce eye damage not fully reversible within 21 days.

Summary of the classification criterion the standard itself uses to assign H318. Not a safety recommendation from CarCareTruth.

Source

H318 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 H318

Listed because the manufacturer’s own published Safety Data Sheet identifies H318as 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.