A new product, a label update, a new customer brand, a new country: the notification step keeps coming back. UFI Number is built to make it easy. Enter each product once to create its UFI (Unique Formula Identifier), also called the UFI number, and prepare its poison centre notification (PCN).
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CM30-Illustration with a sample VAT number. The UFI is computed in your browser with ECHA's published algorithm, and nothing is sent. A real notification also needs the full composition and the classification you already hold.
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A guided workflow that you run yourself. It is built for teams that already hold the formulation and classification data.
Use the full composition, the classification and label elements from your SDS, and your VAT number or ECHA company key.
UFI Number creates the UFI for your label and prepares the poison centre notification in ECHA's format. It is built to check ECHA's validation rules before anything is sent.
It is built to send the notification through ECHA's official system-to-system route, in your company's name. ECHA then passes it to the EU/EEA markets you choose.
UFI Number does not write SDSs, classify mixtures, give legal advice or guarantee acceptance. You bring the data and you stay the duty holder.
Private label, white label, contract manufacturing. You already deliver the SDS, the UFI code and the poison centre notification with each product. The work comes back for every customer brand, label and country. UFI Number is built to make that repeat step easy. You stay in control.
Typical triggers
Your range keeps changing, and you may sell across borders, for example into Germany, or through distributors and retailers in other countries. If you already print UFIs on your labels and SDSs, you know the work. UFI Number is built to make the notification step easy each time. You stay in control.
Typical triggers
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A mixture is a product blended from more than one ingredient. For example: wheel cleaner, screenwash, coolant, degreaser, drain cleaner, dishwasher detergent, reed diffuser or sealant.
This check is a guide, not legal advice. Legal responsibility stays with the company placing the mixture on the market. Cosmetics (CPNP), medicines, food, pure substances and articles follow other rules. UFI Number does not cover Switzerland or the UK.
Products like these
Car care
Cleaning and hygiene
Also
Under the EU rules, only mixtures classified for a health or physical hazard need a PCN. The classification in your SDS decides, not the product type. A few countries add their own conditions, so check the guide for each market you deliver to.
The ECHA Enforcement Forum ran a pilot project on PCN enforcement. Inspectors in 18 EU/EEA countries checked 1,597 mixtures between January and June 2025. The results were published on 11 February 2026.
Source: ECHA Enforcement Forum, pilot project on PCN enforcement (ECHA/NR/26/08, 11 February 2026). A targeted enforcement project, not a measure of the whole market. Read the enforcement summary
Source: ECHA Enforcement Forum, pilot project on PCN enforcement (ECHA/NR/26/08, 11 February 2026). A targeted enforcement project, not a measure of the whole market. Read the enforcement summary
Under Regulation (EU) 2024/2865, distributors who rebrand or relabel a mixture, or distribute it into another EU/EEA country, must make sure it is notified for their product name and market. Either the supplier extends its notification or the distributor notifies, unless the appointed body already has the same information. For suppliers to other brands, one of the two routes is to extend your own notification to the distributor's product name and market.
Read the 2027 guideAsked for a UFI code by a customer, distributor or retailer? Here is the background in three short parts. If you already handle PCNs, you can skip this part.
A mixture is a product blended from more than one ingredient, such as a wheel cleaner, a screenwash concentrate, a drain cleaner or a dishwasher detergent. If it is classified for a health or physical hazard, EU law (CLP Annex VIII) usually asks for two things before it is sold: a UFI on the label and a poison centre notification. Poison centres use the notification to give the right advice in an emergency.
Every PCN compliance date has passed
So the duty is now continuous.
The UFI (Unique Formula Identifier) is a 16-character code on the label. It is generated from your VAT number, or an ECHA company key, and a formulation number you assign, with ECHA's published algorithm. The PCN (poison centre notification) tells poison centres what the mixture contains and how it is classified. ECHA, the EU chemicals agency, runs one harmonised route for the EU/EEA, and one notification can name several markets. A few countries add their own conditions.
Many people call it 'UFI registration'. Legally, you notify the mixture, and the UFI goes on the label and inside the notification. A UFI has no legal effect until the mixture is notified.
You need the full composition and the classification your SDS is based on, your VAT number or ECHA company key, the product names and the markets you deliver to. UFI Number is built to create the UFI, prepare the notification and send it through ECHA's official system-to-system route. It does not write SDSs, classify mixtures or give legal advice.
Legal responsibility stays with the company placing the mixture on the market, whoever prepares the file. UFI Number is in private beta, and the free UFI generator and checker work today.
| Yourself, in IUCLIDECHA's free tools | A consultantQuoted per project | UFI NumberIn private beta | |
|---|---|---|---|
| What do you need to start? | An ECHA account and IUCLIDPlus time to learn the PCN format | A brief and a quoteThey prepare the file for you | The data you already holdComposition, classification and your VAT number or company key |
| Who prepares the notification? | YouIn IUCLID, section by section | The consultantFrom the data you send them | You, guidedBuilt to create the UFI and prepare the notification from one entry |
| When do you see errors? | When you run the checksIUCLID's validation assistant, then ECHA's checks on submission | At deliveryWhen the consultant reports back | As you fill inBuilt to check ECHA's validation rules before anything is sent |
| How does it reach ECHA? | You submit itThrough ECHA's submission portal | They submit itAsk which account they file under | Not live yetBuilt to send it through ECHA's official system-to-system route |
| Who is the duty holder? | YouThe company placing the mixture on the market | YouEven when they file for you | YouYou bring the data and you stay the duty holder |
Not yet. UFI Number is in private beta. It is built to send notifications through ECHA's official system-to-system route. Sending to ECHA is not live yet, and nothing has been submitted to ECHA so far. Invitations go out in small groups, chosen by fit and readiness, not by the order people join. The free UFI generator and checker work today.
Under the EU rules, only mixtures classified for a health or physical hazard need a PCN. Check the CLP label or your safety data sheet (SDS): the classification decides, not the product type. A wheel cleaner, a brake cleaner or a drain cleaner may need one; it depends on the classification. Cosmetics, medicines, food, pure substances and articles follow other rules. A few countries add their own conditions, so check the guide for each market you deliver to. The fit check on this page gives a first answer.
Perhaps not. If your manufacturer notifies each product under your product names, for every country you deliver to, keep it that way. Ask for the UFI and the notification status in writing. UFI Number is built for the work you do yourself: your own formulas, label updates and new countries. From 1 January 2027, under Regulation (EU) 2024/2865, distributors who rebrand or relabel a mixture, or distribute it into another EU/EEA country, must make sure it is notified for their product name and market. Either the supplier extends its notification or the distributor notifies, unless the appointed body already has the same information.
You may not need to. If your process works, keep it. UFI Number is built for the repeats: the same formula for another customer brand, a new customer label, another country a customer sells into. It is meant to sit alongside your chemists and your SDS process, not replace them. They keep the formulas and the classification. You stay in control of what is notified, for which brand and for which market.
Not to join the waitlist. The form never asks for formulas, compositions, VAT numbers, UFIs or safety data sheets. A poison centre notification itself must contain the full composition, because poison centres need it in an emergency. So when you use UFI Number, you enter the composition yourself, and UFI Number keeps it to prepare your notifications. You decide what goes into each notification. The free UFI generator and checker run in your browser, and what you type there never leaves it.
That is true: ECHA charges nothing, and you can use its tools directly. If you notify a few products a year and know ECHA's tools well, you may not need us. UFI Number is built for teams that repeat the step often: new products, customer labels, relevant formula changes and new countries. It is built to guide you through that step with the data you already hold. It does not replace ECHA: it is designed to send each notification through ECHA's official system-to-system route.
Under CLP, the company placing the mixture on the market, whoever prepares the file. That is the same with UFI Number, a consultant or ECHA's own tools. UFI Number does not write SDSs, classify mixtures, give legal advice or guarantee acceptance. ECHA does not certify or approve software vendors.
Germany is one of the 30 EU/EEA markets UFI Number is built for: the 27 EU countries plus Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. Poison centre notifications for Germany go through ECHA's harmonised route, and one notification can name Germany and your other markets. A few countries add their own conditions. Germany requires confirmation of receipt before the product is sold, and so do Belgium, France, Italy, Luxembourg and Spain. Germany also has national rules of its own, so read the Germany guide before you rely on this answer. Fourteen markets require their own language, and Finland needs both Finnish and Swedish. Belgium, Hungary and Italy charge national fees; ECHA charges nothing. Bulgaria and Romania are not yet receiving notifications through ECHA, and UFI Number is built for ECHA's route only, so it does not cover their national requirements. Switzerland and the UK are not covered.
No. Cosmetics are notified through CPNP, a separate system with its own rules. Poison centre notification covers mixtures classified for health or physical hazards under CLP, such as a classified wheel cleaner or drain cleaner. UFI Number is built for poison centre notification only.
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