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What the label carries

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The signal word The chronic effects The components Safe handling The sensitizers And the statement of conformance Which is a claim about a review that happened The label is not the review Where this property can help And with knowing when it applies References

Six things, and the statement of conformance is the one that cannot be self-assessed.

The signal word

"WARNING" where only chronic hazards exist, and it has a typographic requirement: "prominently visible and set in bold capitals in a size equal to or greater than the statement of potential chronic hazards". The warning may not be smaller than the thing it warns about.

The chronic effects

A statement of the potential chronic effects, substantially in accordance with the statements the regulation lists. Not a general caution but the specific effect the review found.

The components

Every component and known decomposition product of the formulation with a potential for chronic hazards, "listed prominently". Decomposition products are easy to forget and are in the text.

Safe handling

Instructions for safe use, which for a solvent-borne product usually means ventilation, skin contact and what not to do with it, in the words a user will act on.

The sensitizers

Components known to cause sensitization, listed. A sensitizer is a different hazard from a toxin: the exposure that matters is the second one, after the person has been primed by the first.

And the statement of conformance

One of three permitted forms: "Conforms to ASTM Practice D-4236", "Conforms to ASTM D-4236", or "Conforms to the health requirements of ASTM D-4236". It "should appear whenever practical on the product".

Which is a claim about a review that happened

The statement says the formulation was reviewed against the standard. Printing it on a bottle whose contents nobody reviewed is the one failure on this page that cannot be fixed with better typography.

The label is not the review

Everything above is the output. The input is a toxicologist looking at your formulation, which is a service you buy, and the only part of this that a container supplier has nothing to do with.

Where this property can help

With the part that is physical: how much printable surface a 15 mL bottle has, whether an insert fits, and which closure leaves room for a label at all. The next page is about exactly that.

And with knowing when it applies

Chronic hazard labeling applies where the review finds a potential chronic hazard. A product reviewed and found to have none is labeled differently, which is a finding rather than an assumption.

References

16 CFR 1500.14(b)(8), the art materials labeling requirements. The label carries a signal word, "WARNING" where only chronic hazards exist, "prominently visible and set in bold capitals in a size equal to or greater than the statement of potential chronic hazards"; the potential chronic effects; every component and known decomposition product of the formulation with a potential for chronic hazards, "listed prominently"; safe handling instructions; sensitizing components; and a statement of conformance in one of three permitted forms, "Conforms to ASTM Practice D-4236", "Conforms to ASTM D-4236" or "Conforms to the health requirements of ASTM D-4236", which "should appear whenever practical on the product". law.cornell.edu

15 U.S.C. 1277, the Labeling of Hazardous Art Materials Act. Subsection (a) makes the labeling requirements of ASTM D-4236 "deemed to be a regulation issued by the Commission under section 1262(b) of this title". (b)(1) defines an art material as "Any substance marketed or represented by the producer or repackager as suitable for use in any phase of the creation of any work of visual or graphic art of any medium", excluding economic poisons under FIFRA and drugs, devices or cosmetics under the FFDCA. (b)(2) "applies to art materials intended for users of any age". (b)(5) requires the label of an art material needing chronic hazard labeling to carry "the name and address of the producer or repackager of the art materials and an appropriate telephone number and a statement signifying that such art materials are inappropriate for use by children". (b)(6) requires new hazard information to be "incorporated into the labels of such art materials that are manufactured after 12 months from the date of discovery". law.cornell.edu

Written from 15 U.S.C. 1277, 16 CFR 1500.14(b)(8) and 16 CFR 1500.3(c)(6), and from the catalog as it stood on 18 October 2026. Where a requirement turns on a determination the Commission makes rather than on a fixed rule, this property says so. Nothing here is a toxicological review, which is the one thing in this area that cannot be done from a document.