Recital (29)

To ensure a high degree of protection of human health, given the wide availability of detergents and end-user surfactants and the high risk of accidental poisoning, in particular among children, the Member States’ appointed bodies under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008 supporting the emergency health response should have access to qualitative and quantitative information on the composition of detergents and end-user surfactants, even if not required under that Regulation. Therefore, before such products are placed on the market, manufacturers and, where applicable, their importer or authorised representative should provide an ingredients data sheet for detergents and end-users surfactants which are mixtures not hazardous for human health. In addition, distributors making available on the market the products in Member States other than those in which the products are already available, should also provide the ingredients data sheet. In order to optimise the communication of the information, the obligations in this Regulation should build upon the system related to emergency health response already established under Regulation (EC) No 1272/2008, as it is already familiar to many economic operators and poison centres. The Commission should be empowered to set out the technical requirements for fulfilling the obligation to provide the ingredients data sheet.