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Notification of biocides

In Belgium, any biocide must be approved by the Federal Public Service Health, Food Chain Safety and the Environment, prior to its commercialization.

Once your product has received its marketing authorisation in Belgium, you have to declare it to the Poison Centre

Depending on the case, an authorisation request OR a notification request needs to be submitted For more details please contact:

FPS Health, Food Chain Safety and Environment
Direction Générale Environnement/DG5 Biocides
Place Victor Horta 40 boîte 10
1060 Brussels
Email: info.biocides@environment.belgium.be
www.biocide.be

 Notifications to the poison centre 

  • Notification of biocides  classified as hazardous 

    Notification of biocides classified as hazardous, based on the regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, because of its effects on health or because of its physical effects must be done electronically in XML format compliant with Annex VIII of Commission Regulation (EU) 2017/542.
    See Notification of mixtures  classified as hazardous.
  •  Notification of biocides non-classified as hazardous 

However, we invite the companies to notify all products, hazardous or not as accidents with all products can happen. It is important for the medical team to have access to the composition of a product involved in an incident and especially for incidental intake.
There is no obligation to notify non-classified mixtures or mixtures only classified for the environmental hazards (with H4xx statement) to the Poison Centre.

If you include the Poison Control Centre emergency number on your labels and/or safety data sheets, the composition of your mixtures must have been declared to the Poison Control Centre.

Your declaration includes:

- An EDF declaration worksheet: this is a simple Excel file (compatible with Open Office) that you complete before sending it back to us.
Download the EDF table (Excel).
EDF manual: need help with the EDF? This easy to use manual shows you how to fill-out the EDF Excel file.

- For each mixture declared many documents: SDS, composition, label. All documents should preferably be provided in PDF format.

You can send us your declaration: By e-mail: depot@poisoncentre.be