The Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals, or GHS, is an international standard, created by the United Nations, designed to supersede the many classification and labelling systems that are currently in use around the world. In the European Union, the GHS is implemented as the CLP Regulation.One of the barriers to the adoption of the GHS is the requirement for organisations to map the classification and labelling elements of their existing systems onto those of the GHS. A requirement that, from June 2015, will be mandatory for any organisation that operates within the European Union.We present a software system for the semi-automatic extraction and enrichment of a machine-processable controlled vocabulary of classification and labelling elements from the information content of the CLP Regulation, along with an exemplar dataset of descriptions of substances and mixtures. As our software system uses Semantic Web technologies, the resulting data is highly amenable to further manipulation and integration with data from other sources.

Machine-processable representation and applications of the Globally Harmonized System

247th National Meeting (2014)

The official archive and repository for all ACS Meetings & Expositions abstracts and select posters or presentations.