Safety data sheets
Safety data sheets are added next to each compound's certificate as we receive them from the supplier.
Format
The sixteen sections
Every sheet filed here follows the GHS format. A sheet with a section missing is not a complete sheet.
- Identification
- Hazard identification
- Composition and ingredients
- First aid measures
- Fire-fighting measures
- Accidental release measures
- Handling and storage
- Exposure controls and personal protection
- Physical and chemical properties
- Stability and reactivity
- Toxicological information
- Ecological information
- Disposal considerations
- Transport information
- Regulatory information
- Other information
Reading one
The three sections that matter at the bench
- Section 7, handling and storage
- Temperature, light, moisture. For freeze-dried powder this is where the minus 20 C storage and the warm-up-before-opening rule are stated.
- Section 8, exposure controls
- What to wear and what ventilation you need when handling the dry powder, which is when it can get into the air.
- Section 13, disposal
- How mixed solution and empty vials leave the lab.
Documentation
The certificate for each compound
Purity, identity, lab and report number, on every product page.
Elsewhere
Also on this site
The laboratoryWho tests our compounds, and how to check a report with them.Research libraryMethod guides and the compound reference.Bacteriostatic water guideShelf life, volumes and what the preservative does.Reconstitution calculatorVolume to concentration, from peptide mass.GlossaryThe words on a certificate, defined.Supplier checklistFourteen checks to run on any supplier, this one included.