Environmental

H401

“Toxic to aquatic life”

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

How this code is assigned

GHS classHazardous to the aquatic environment — acute, Category 2

CriterionAssigned based on an acute aquatic toxicity between 1 and 10 mg/L.

Summary of the classification criterion the standard itself uses to assign H401. Not a safety recommendation from CarCareTruth.

Source

H401 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 H401

Listed because the manufacturer’s own published Safety Data Sheet identifies H401as 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.