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Health hazard · Serious eye damage/eye irritation

H319 — Causes serious eye irritation

Health hazard statements describe what the substance does to a person exposed to it. 400 substances with a harmonised EU classification carry this code.

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

01 · Wording

What H319 says

Official

Causes serious eye irritation.

Source

CLP Annex III · Health hazards

Classification
GHS07 pictogram — exclamation mark

Serious eye damage/eye irritation GHS chapter 3.3

Category 2A · pictogram GHS07 (exclamation mark) · signal word Warning

UN GHS history

Unchanged since 2009.

Rev.3 2009
Rev.4 2011
Rev.5 2013
Rev.6 2015
Rev.7 2017
Rev.8 2019
Rev.9 2021
Rev.10 2023
Rev.11 2025
wording never changed

Present in every UN GHS edition from Rev.3 (2009) to Rev.11 (2025), with the same wording throughout.

Nine editions of the UN model text, 86 hazard statements, 19 of which ever moved. Read the full story in what changed in UN GHS Rev.11.

02 · Languages

H319 in the 24 official EU languages

A label put on the market in an EU country must carry the wording of that country's own language version of CLP — not a translation of the English one. These 24 lines are quoted from the consolidated regulation, Annex III, and are the text to print.

LanguageOfficial wording of H319
BG български Bulgarian Предизвиква сериозно дразнене на очите.
ES español Spanish Provoca irritación ocular grave.
CS čeština Czech Způsobuje vážné podráždění očí.
DA dansk Danish Forårsager alvorlig øjenirritation.
DE Deutsch German Verursacht schwere Augenreizung.
ET eesti Estonian Põhjustab tugevat silmade ärritust.
EL ελληνικά Greek Προκαλεί σοβαρό οφθαλμικό ερεθισμό.
EN English English Causes serious eye irritation.
FR français French Provoque une sévère irritation des yeux.
GA Gaeilge Irish Ina chúis le greannú tromchúiseach don tsúil.
HR hrvatski Croatian Uzrokuje jako nadraživanje oka.
IT italiano Italian Provoca grave irritazione oculare.
LV latviešu Latvian Izraisa nopietnu acu kairinājumu.
LT lietuvių Lithuanian Sukelia smarkų akių dirginimą.
HU magyar Hungarian Súlyos szemirritációt okoz.
MT Malti Maltese Jagħmel irritazzjoni serja lill-għajnejn.
NL Nederlands Dutch Veroorzaakt ernstige oogirritatie.
PL polski Polish Działa drażniąco na oczy.
PT português Portuguese Provoca irritação ocular grave.
RO română Romanian Provoacă o iritare gravă a ochilor.
SK slovenčina Slovak Spôsobuje vážne podráždenie očí.
SL slovenščina Slovenian Povzroča hudo draženje oči.
FI suomi Finnish Ärsyttää voimakkaasti silmiä.
SV svenska Swedish Orsakar allvarlig ögonirritation.

Source: CELEX:02008R1272-20260501, Annex III. © European Union, https://eur-lex.europa.eu — only the electronic Official Journal of the European Union is authentic. Irish is one of the 24 official languages and its H and P texts are printed inside the multilingual Annex tables, but no consolidated CLP has ever been published in Irish — which is why an Irish-primary label cannot be built here.

03 · Legal status

Where H319 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.

JurisdictionBasisStatus of H319
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

04 · Substances

Substances carrying H319

Every entry whose harmonised CLP Annex VI classification includes this hazard statement. Substances with a reference page here open on this site; the rest open on ghssymbols.com. Of these, 28 are group entries such as “salts of picric acid” or “beryllium compounds” — 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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