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Documents & Reports, Properties, Suitability 12/11/2024

Ensuring that a Formulation’s Total Concentration is exactly 100 using Suitability on Properties TOTALCONC and TOTALCONC100

Properties TOTALCONC and TOTALCONC100 If you export Formulations to an ERP system, you may have a requirement to ensure that a Formulation’s Total Concentration is exactly 100 parts, thus ensuring that the concentration of each component is a percentage of the total. This may be achieved with a couple of non-standard Properties TOTALCONC and TOTALCONC100 along with a Suitability Constraint and/or an additional scope Validity Property. Property TOTALCONC reflects the Total Concentration of a Fo...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Items, Suitability 08/05/2024

Invalid Components and Composition in CDT is Illegal Error Messages

Invalid Components and Composition in CDT is Illegal Error Messages The error messages may occur when a User attempts to Save and Check In an existing Formulation. Formpak will check the Item in the Composition of the Formulation to ensure only permitted Item Classes are used in the Composition. Also the error may occur if a User attempts to Modify an existing Composition of a Formulation and the User does not have the required Permission. If the User attempts to Save and Check In Components whi...

Administration, Documents & Reports, Suitability 23/04/2024

Suitability Check Report Includes Item Sources Structure Report from Version 45140

Suitability Check Report Includes Item Sources Structure Report on Version 45140 You can now generate a Item Sources Structure Report when printing the Suitability Check. This Report enables Users to understand the relationship between Component Items in the Suitability Check Report and the Formulation being checked. To enable this function in the application navigate to ‘Manage Application Settings’. Select Suitability Checking from the Category drop down menu. Select Yes ‘Inc...

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...

Items, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Add Exceptions Based on Application

Suitability – Add Exceptions Based on Application Some clients may ‘ban’ an ingredient from being used in their products, except they allow it for specified applications. For example, they may ban ingredient ethanol from their products, except if the product will be used in an application of alcoholic drinks or fine fragrance. You can reflect this situation in Suitability Management, using ‘Exceptions’. As a summary the exceptions have to be exactly equivalent to th...

Parties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Add Exclusivity Constraint

Suitability – Add Exclusivity Constraint This constraint can be used if you have a product which is exclusive to a customer or group of customers (e.g. different divisions of the same company or a client and their third-party manufacturer) and should not be submitted to other customers. Exclusivity is required to be a global constraint because it must check all parties to determine compliance. Add a New Suitability Constraint Select which formulation(s) is required to be exclusive for whic...

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, Parties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Customer raw materials allowed

Data Import and New Property (for Customer ‘allowed’ raw materials and suitability) Background Sometimes a customer provides a list of allowed raw materials, meaning any other ingredients are prohibited within their formulations. Formpak can help in this scenario by: Importing the status of ‘allowed’ for each raw material Advising on properties, so the status for a formulation can be calculated from the status of the raw materials Advising on suitability, so that during p...

Parties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Exception for Party

Suitability – Exception for Party Suitability exceptions are used when a suitability rule is true for almost all circumstances, except there’s a single or small number of times when the rule does not apply. This usually means adding one constraint to limit for all, and a second constraint for the exception case. Exception for Party can be used when a suitability rule is true for almost everyone, except there’s a customer or group of customers for whom it’s not true. Examp...

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...