General · precautionary statement

P101 — If medical advice is needed, have product container or label at hand.

General statements appear on almost every consumer-facing label. 40 substances with a harmonised EU classification carry this code.

EU CLP: currentUS OSHA HazCom: currentUS HazCom 2012: currentUN GHS: current

01 · Wording

What P101 says

Official

If medical advice is needed, have product container or label at hand.

Where P101 is current

GHS is a United Nations model text, revised every two years, and each jurisdiction adopts a revision on its own timetable. A code can be legally current in one system and deleted in another — that is normal, not an error.

Jurisdiction	Basis	Status of P101
EU CLP	Regulation (EC) 1272/2008 CLP Annex IV, Part 2 (consolidated)	Current
US OSHA HazCom	29 CFR 1910.1200 Appendix C UN GHS Rev.7 (final rule of 20 May 2024)	Current
US HazCom 2012	legacy · GHS Rev.3 UN GHS Rev.3, Annex 3	Current
UN GHS	Rev.11 (2025) UN GHS Rev.11, Annex 3	Current

Currently in force under: EU CLP, US OSHA HazCom, US HazCom 2012, UN GHS. Sources: EU CLP · US OSHA HazCom · US HazCom 2012 · UN GHS

03 · Substances

Substances carrying P101

Every entry whose harmonised CLP Annex VI classification includes this precautionary statement. Substances with a reference page here open on this site; the rest open on ghssymbols.com. Of these, 3 are group entries such as “beryllium compounds” or “salts of hydrazine” — Annex VI gives them no CAS number, so they are listed by Index No and have no page of their own.

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The full list of P-codes with the jurisdiction switch lives on the precautionary statements hub. For the hazard side, see hazard statements (H-codes).

Wording quoted from the regulation named above. Substance counts come from harmonised classifications in CLP Annex VI — the statements on a real product also depend on the supplier's own classification. Always check the supplier safety data sheet.