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

Suitability Check in Find Matching Items

Suitability Check in Find Matching Items In Find Matching Items you have the option to include a Suitability Check as part of your search. This option is found in the ‘Library Details’ group. To access this group, you will need to click the double arrow ‘Expand’ button. Once the option is selected you are given the option to specify the Party, Application, Dosage and TO. First the system will find items matching the search criteria, then they will be checked against any s...

Properties 20/07/2023

Turning off a Property

Process for turning off a Property Many properties are calculated based on composition data. Occasionally the result of the calculated property is not what you want. For example, an essential oil may have a test result for environmental hazards which is different to the calculated result. Another example is if your formulation contains acids and bases and the calculated result leads to skin corrosion hazard but you know neutralistion has occurred. In this type of scenario, you may want to ‘...

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&...

Items, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Identify but Don’t Prohibit Materials in a Suitability Check Report

Suitability – Identify but don’t prohibit materials in a suitability check report Example of use: You have a customer who needs certain ingredients to be identified to them e.g. on a questionnaire, but they do not limit or ban those ingredients. Add a Yes/No Property to group the target ingredients together. For example if polycyclic musks are a target, you could use a yes/no property ‘PM’ Add PM = Yes to all the polycyclic musks Add a suitability constraint, as in the ex...

Documents & Reports, Properties 20/07/2023

Rules for Precautionary Statements for products under CLP

What are the rules for selecting precautionary statements for a consumer product under CLP? Precautionary statements are tricky. The key thing is the precautions should be targeted at the user, for the specific product taking into account the hazards. The CLP definition is: ‘Precautionary statement’ means a phrase that describes recommended measure(s) to minimise or prevent adverse effects resulting from exposure to a hazardous substance or mixture due to its use or disposal; For exa...

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

SDS Print Errors

SDS Print Errors These are common error message that appear whilst attempting to print Safety Data Sheets “CLPANN2SDSVALID is false” This occurs if a Flash Point and/or Recommended Use have not been entered for the focus item. In ‘Modify a Formulation’ or ‘Modify a Raw Material’ go to the Properties tab and use group ‘Physical Data’ to enter a temperature value for Flash Point and use group ‘Recommended Uses’ to add a Recommended Use. P...

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

Showing the UFI on the CLP Safety Data Sheet

Showing the UFI on the CLP Safety Data Sheet Unique Formula Identifier (UFI) can be shown on the CLP Safety Data Sheet and CLP Safety Data Sheet Banded. This will show in Section 1.1 and section 2.2 of the CLP Safety Data Sheet. Process to show UFI in Section 1.1 Go to Modify a Formulation, enter your formulation In Properties, add the Property UFI under Property Group CLP Hazards and add your UFI as the value Process to show UFI in Section 2.2 Go to Modify a Formulation, enter your formulation...

Items, Properties 20/07/2023

Specific Concentration Limits

Adding a CLP Specific Concentration Limit (SCL) to a Raw Material In the example shown there are Specific Concentration Limits (SCL’s) for skin and eye corrosion. Here are the general instructions about adding SCL’s for Acetic Acid The SCL’s are added to the properties which have ‘=’ at the end (the = properties relate to calculations). In the example of Acetic Acid the CLP Annex VI Harmonised Annex VI (1272/2008/EC) shows a classification of SCI 1A and related SCL&...

Documents & Reports, Properties 20/07/2023

Print Item Property Report

Print Item Property Report This feature allows you to print a report showing properties of an item or multiple items. This information is reported in a table format. Enter the first item in the ‘Item’ field. Use the ‘+’ button to include additional items. You can also add items from a basket using the ‘Add from Basket’ button in the top menu bar. Items can be removed from the list using the ‘-‘ button. You can specify the properties to be reported...