Ordinance
on Protection against Dangerous Substances and Preparations
(Chemicals Ordinance, ChemO)

¹ When sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions are stored, the in­form­a­tion and in­struc­tions giv­en on the pack­age and la­belling and, if ap­plic­able, in the safety data sheet must be taken in­to ac­count.

² Dan­ger­ous sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions and their con­tain­ers must be pro­tec­ted against haz­ard­ous, es­pe­cially mech­an­ic­al, im­pacts.

³ Dan­ger­ous sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions must be clearly iden­ti­fi­able and kept sep­ar­ate from oth­er goods. No food­stuffs, an­im­al feed­ing­stuffs or thera­peut­ic products may be kept in the im­me­di­ate vi­cin­ity.

⁴ Para­graphs 1–3 also ap­ply to ob­jects from which sub­stances or pre­par­a­tions are re­leased in quant­it­ies that may en­danger hu­man health or the en­vir­on­ment.

⁵ Sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions that may re­act dan­ger­ously with each oth­er must be stored sep­ar­ately.

⁶ Dan­ger­ous sub­stances and pre­par­a­tions may only be filled in­to and stored in con­tain­ers which meet the fol­low­ing re­quire­ments:

a.

They must not be cap­able of be­ing con­fused with pack­aging con­tain­ing food­stuffs, cos­met­ics, thera­peut­ic products or an­im­al feed­ing­stuffs.

b.

The name of the sub­stance or pre­par­a­tion must be giv­en in the la­belling of the con­tain­ers.

c.

They must com­ply with the re­quire­ments of Art­icle 35 para­graphs 1 and 3 of the CLP Reg­u­la­tion¹¹⁷.

d.

Their design must not be likely to at­tract or arouse the curi­os­ity of chil­dren.