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Reference data from EU CLP Annex VI and published regulations — verify against your supplier's SDS before use.

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Response · precautionary statement

P352 — Wash with plenty of water.

Response statements describe what to do once exposure, a spill or a fire has happened. 936 substances with a harmonised EU classification carry this code.

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

01 · Wording

What P352 says

Official

Wash with plenty of water/ The wording is incomplete on purpose. What to wash with — water, or water and soap.

Typical

Wash with plenty of water. How it usually reads on a label. We show it separately rather than presenting a filled-in blank as the regulation's own text.

Category

Response · GHS revision 9

Reading the official wording. is a blank the supplier fills in — not a truncated sentence.· [square brackets] mark a part printed only when it applies. · A slash offers a choice, as in POISON CENTER/doctor.

Does your label need P352? That depends on the hazard classes of your product, on whether it goes to the public or to professionals, and on what else is already on the label — Annex IV column 5 lets one statement remove another. Work it out from a classification →

02 · Languages

P352 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 IV, and are the text to print.

LanguageOfficial wording of P352
BG български Bulgarian Измийте обилно с вода/…
ES español Spanish Lavar con abundante agua/…
CS čeština Czech Omyjte velkým množstvím vody/…
DA dansk Danish Vask med rigeligt vand/…
DE Deutsch German Mit viel Wasser/…/waschen.
ET eesti Estonian Pesta rohke veega/…
EL ελληνικά Greek Πλύντε με άφθονο νερό/…
EN English English Wash with plenty of water/…
FR français French Laver abondamment à l’eau/…
GA Gaeilge Irish Nigh le neart uisce/…
HR hrvatski Croatian Oprati velikom količinom vode/…
IT italiano Italian Lavare abbondantemente con acqua/…
LV latviešu Latvian Nomazgāt ar lielu ūdens/.. daudzumu.
LT lietuvių Lithuanian Plauti dideliu vandens kiekiu/…
HU magyar Hungarian Lemosás bő vízzel/….
MT Malti Maltese Baħbaħ b’ħafna ilma/…
NL Nederlands Dutch Met veel water/… wassen.
PL polski Polish Umyć dużą ilością wody/…
PT português Portuguese Lavar abundantemente com água/…
RO română Romanian Spălați cu multă apă/…
SK slovenčina Slovak Umyte veľkým množstvom vody/…
SL slovenščina Slovenian Umiti z veliko vode/…
FI suomi Finnish Pese runsaalla vedellä/…
SV svenska Swedish Tvätta med mycket vatten/…

Source: CELEX:02008R1272-20260501, Annex IV. © 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.

Where P352 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 P352
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 · On a label

P352 usually appears combined

CLP Annex IV defines combined statements as single label elements. P352 is a component of one of them — this is how you will actually see it printed.

CodeCombined statement
P302+P352 IF ON SKIN: wash with plenty of water. CLP verbatim: IF ON SKIN: Wash with plenty of water/…

Substances carrying P352

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, 84 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.

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