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Administration, Documents & Reports, Properties 17/10/2023

Automatic Processing

Process for setting up Automatic Processing Automatic processing ensures the properties of Raw Materials and Formulations are always up to date and allows the impact of these updates to generate revised documents for customers. Typically, Automatic Processing is scheduled to run out of office hours when Formpak is not in use. Caution is advised before making any changes as it may disrupt other out of hours actions. Automatic Processing has multiple steps: Recalculate for Property Type – Select...

Documents & Reports, Properties 10/10/2023

IFRA 51st Amendment

IFRA 51st Amendment The IFRA 51st Amendment is available to view on the IFRA website The name of the property group in Formpak is ‘IFRA 49 Categories’ and will not be changed. Please do not rename it, as the name is referenced in the IFRA (49) Certificate logic, and it’s necessary to stay the same for the document to work correctly. If your data is up to date with IFRA 50th and are therefore routinely producing IFRA 50th Certificates, then you can change the document content of your IFRA c...

Properties 20/07/2023

Using Property Groups and Types

Using Property Groups and Types Properties have to belong to a Group and Type. These help to define and categorise the properties. An example of a Property Group could be “GHS Hazards” and within it are Property Types such as “GHS Pictograms”, “GHS Signal Words” and “GHS Precautions”. Then within these groups would be the individual properties such as “GHS_Flame”, “GHS_Danger” and “P102”. When you add a new prope...

Documents & Reports, Properties 20/07/2023

What are Lower Limits of Concentration?

What are Generic cut-offs/ lower limits of concentration? In GHS, and regional versions of it, there is a concept of relevance in relation to which components of a mixture ‘count’ when applying GHS mixture calculations. Effectively, you can ignore components below the generic cut-off limit when you calculate the hazards of a mixture. However there are circumstances which modify the generic situations. An example in CLP is the generic cut off for ingredients which are classified as Ha...

Documents & Reports, Properties 20/07/2023

What are Total Fractional Values?

What are Total Fractional Values A Total Fractional Value, or TFV, is the concentration of a hazardous ingredient divided by the generic concentration limit of that hazard for the ingredient(s). Why are TFVs useful? TFVs are useful because they show where a hazard (generally a Hazard classification) becomes applicable to a formulation. To discuss TFVs, it is useful to do a quick run through some other aspects of the legislation. In GHS regulations, a key method of determining hazards for a formu...

Documents & Reports, Items, Properties 20/07/2023

Which ingredients are making a formulation environmentally hazardous?

Which ingredients are making a formulation environmentally hazardous? First of all, a brief outline of how the hazard is calculated: The levels which trigger an environmental classification are 25% total contributors to the end point, e.g. 25% or more combined EH C1 components equals EH C1 on the formulation. When looking at EH C2 classification, it’s 25% contributing EH C2 which is the sum of EH C2 and 10 x EH C1. When looking at EH C3, this is the sum of EH C3 + 10 x EH C2 + 100 x EH C1...

Documents & Reports, Items, Properties 20/07/2023

Which Raw Material Hazard Classification to use when given different options

Which Raw Material Hazard Classification to use when given different options When a Raw Material has different classifications from different sources, it can be tricky to decide which is the one to choose. There is rarely a standard ‘right’ answer, but here are some data sources to consider. Harmonised entry in Annex VI of CLP – https://echa.europa.eu/information-on-chemicals/annex-vi-to-clp This the minimum classification required in the EU; GB started in alignment, but may di...

Documents & Reports, Items, Properties 20/07/2023

Why does H317 appear for my mixture for OSHA GHS but not for CLP GHS?

Why does H317 May cause an allergic skin reaction appear for my mixture for OSHA GHS but not for CLP GHS H317 – ‘May cause an allergic skin reaction’ is required on a mixture when there’s a skin sensitiser at or above the trigger level. There are differences in the trigger levels between OSHA and CLP. In CLP: the trigger is 1% for materials classified as Skin Sensitiser category 1 or category 1B; and 0.1% for Skin Sensitiser category. In OSHA: the trigger is 1% for materi...

Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Add Constraint for Acute Toxicity

Suitability – Add Constraint for Acute Toxicity The acute toxicity hazards e.g. Harmful if swallowed H302, Harmful in contact with skin H312, are based on LD50 calculations and do not have a TFV hazard. Therefore, if we want to avoid these hazards in application, we cannot use a ‘Property Maximum’ condition and instead need to use the condition ‘Limit Property Minimum’ targeted at the Acute Toxicity Estimate (ATE) Properties. Example 1: Avoid Toxic / Fatal if Swallo...

Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Ban lower level allergens on a Label (EUH208)

Suitability – Ban lower level allergens on a Label (EUH208 for CLP) This constraint can be used if you have a customer or group of customers who want to prevent lower level allergens appearing on their product label due to the CLP requirement for EUH208. An example of EUH208 is ‘Contains Citral. May produce an allergic reaction’. To the customer or group of customers with this requirement, add a Suitability Constraint as follows: Add a constraint with a ‘Property Maximum&...