H331Toxic if inhaled

The GHS hazard statement for acute toxicity, inhalation, category 3. Here is what it means, the label elements that travel with it, and the substances that carry it.

AT A GLANCE · OFFICIAL STATEMENT
Toxic if inhaled.
HAZARD CLASS
Acute toxicity, inhalation
CATEGORY
Category 3
SIGNAL WORD
Danger

What it means

Serious harm from breathing the substance — as gas, vapor, dust, or mist — over a single short exposure. Categories are set from acute toxicity estimates (ATE) per GHS Chapter 3.1.

Precautionary statements paired with H331

When the engine writes SDS Section 2 or a container label for a product carrying H331, these are the P-codes it assigns, in the official Annex 3 groups:

Substances that carry H331

221 of the 4,228 substances in our database carry H331 when classified in pure form — recognizable examples:

Methanol
CAS 67-56-1
phenol
CAS 108-95-2
nitric acid [C ≤ 70 %]
CAS 7697-37-2
chloroform
CAS 67-66-3
SAME HAZARD CLASS:H330H332H333

Reference information, not legal or professional advice. Statement texts and allocations follow GHS Rev 9 / 29 CFR 1910.1200 Appendix C as implemented by our classification engine; the regulatory text and agency practice control. Claims last reviewed July 23, 2026.

The engine writes these for you.

When SDS HQ authors an SDS or a container label, it assigns the hazard statements, signal word, pictograms, and precautionary statements from these same tables — automatically, with the calculation shown.