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Disposal · precautionary statement

P501 — Dispose of contents and container in accordance with local regulations.

Disposal statements cover the leftover product and the empty container. 2,293 substances with a harmonised EU classification carry this code.

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

01 · Wording

What P501 says

Official

Dispose of contents/container to The wording is incomplete on purpose. The disposal route: a licensed waste contractor, a collection point, or whatever local rules require.

Typical

Dispose of contents and container in accordance with local regulations. 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

Disposal · 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 P501? 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

P501 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 P501
BG български Bulgarian Съдържанието/съдът да се изхвърли в …
ES español Spanish Eliminar el contenido/el recipiente en …
CS čeština Czech Odstraňte obsah/obal …
DA dansk Danish Indholdet/beholderen bortskaffes i …
DE Deutsch German Inhalt/Behälter … zuführen.
ET eesti Estonian Sisu/mahuti kõrvaldada …
EL ελληνικά Greek Διάθεση του περιεχομένου/περιέκτη σε …
EN English English Dispose of contents/container to …
FR français French Éliminer le contenu/récipient dans …
GA Gaeilge Irish Diúscair an t-ábhar/an coimeádán i …
HR hrvatski Croatian Odložiti sadržaj/spremnik u/na …
IT italiano Italian Smaltire il prodotto/recipiente in …
LV latviešu Latvian Atbrīvoties no satura/tvertnes…
LT lietuvių Lithuanian Turinį/talpyklą šalinti …
HU magyar Hungarian A tartalom/edény elhelyezése hulladékként: …
MT Malti Maltese Armi l-kontenut/il-kontenitur fi …
NL Nederlands Dutch Inhoud/verpakking afvoeren naar …
PL polski Polish Zawartość/pojemnik usuwać do …
PT português Portuguese Eliminar o conteúdo/recipiente em …
RO română Romanian Aruncați conținutul/recipientul la …
SK slovenčina Slovak Zneškodnite obsah/nádobu …
SL slovenščina Slovenian Odstraniti vsebino/posodo …
FI suomi Finnish Hävitä sisältö/pakkaus …
SV svenska Swedish Innehållet/behållaren lämnas till…

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 P501 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 P501
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

Substances carrying P501

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, 264 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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