Detergent ingredient sheets and website lists
Prepare a complete ingredient data sheet for medical personnel and a less detailed public website list from the same approved formulation. Arrange prompt, free medical access, unrestricted public access and a check of both records whenever the formula changes. Use this factory document checklist when briefing Cambridge China Bridge.
Start with an approved formulation
HSE includes detergent importers among those responsible for compliance in Great Britain. Ask the factory for the complete formulation, ingredient identities and proportions, including information from fragrance and blended raw-material suppliers. Assign someone in your business to approve the medical sheet and public list against that formulation.
This guide covers ingredient disclosure. Use our cleaning products guide for REACH and disinfectant claims, and our detergent labelling guide for packaging work. Give each fragrance or formulation variant a clear identity so staff do not send the wrong sheet.
Prepare the medical-personnel sheet
The sheet must name the detergent and manufacturer, list all ingredients in decreasing order by weight and divide them into the prescribed weight percentage bands. Impurities are excluded. Give the common chemical or IUPAC name and, where available, the INCI name, CAS number and European Pharmacopoeia name. A list containing only hazardous ingredients will not meet the all-ingredient requirement.
Perfume, essential oil and colouring agent mixtures are treated as single ingredients, subject to the exception for specified fragrance allergens above the applicable threshold. Ask the supplier for an allergen declaration that supports this check. HSE prescribes the information rather than a layout, so an existing sheet can be adapted if it contains everything required.
Derive the public website list
Prepare the public version from the medical sheet, retaining ingredient order but omitting weight percentage bands and CAS numbers. Use INCI names, then European Pharmacopoeia names where INCI names are unavailable, then common chemical or IUPAC names. Apply the prescribed generic names for perfume and colouring agents and the fragrance-allergen exception.
The website must be unrestricted and kept up to date, and include a link to a suitable ingredient-name correspondence table. The ingredient-list website address must appear on the packaging. You can use a freely accessible hosted page rather than your own website. Test the printed address without logging in or completing a request form.
Keep medical access separate
Medical personnel must receive the complete sheet on request, without delay and free of charge. HSE says supplying a poisons centre is an optional extra, not an alternative to this access. Medical personnel and the assigned information body must keep the information confidential and use it only for medical purposes.
Consumer packaging must give the address, email address where available and telephone number from which the medical sheet can be obtained. Set up a monitored contact route, a deputy and a ready-to-send controlled copy. For solely professional industrial or institutional products, HSE allows equivalent information through technical or safety data sheets; do not assume an ordinary SDS contains the necessary ingredient information.
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Check both records when the formula changes
The public website has an express duty to stay up to date. As a practical release control, require factory notification before changing ingredients, proportions, fragrance, colour or blended raw materials. Compare the revised formulation with both records, including ingredient order, medical weight bands, names and allergen declarations. Update whichever information changes before releasing the revised product.
Record the approved formulation, revision date, affected batches, medical sheet and published page together. Keep superseded copies identifiable so a medical enquiry about an older batch can be answered accurately. Follow our factory substitution guide for change approval and our compliance file guide for organising the records.
Frequently asked questions
Can I use an SDS as the detergent ingredient sheet?
Only if it contains the required information. HSE permits adapting an existing sheet. A hazardous-ingredient summary alone does not satisfy the medical sheet’s all-ingredient requirement.
Must I publish detergent ingredient percentages?
Weight percentage bands belong in the medical sheet. They and CAS numbers are not required in the public website version.
Can the public ingredient list require a login?
No. Website access must have no restriction or condition. Test the packaging address as a visitor who is not signed in.
What should I do after a factory formulation change?
Check both records against the approved revised formula. Update changed information, keep the public page current and link previous versions to the batches they covered.