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Important changes in classification of Methyl Eugenol, Estragol and other ingredients were included in the IFRA /IOFI Labelling Manual 2009, as follows:
This impacts the classification of several essential common oils including Aniseed, Bay, Basil, Fennel and Pine Oil Yarmor. There are some tricky issues surrounding the R phrase R68.
A Total Fractional Value, or TFV, is the concentration of a hazardous ingredient divided by the hazard limit of that hazard for that ingredient. They can appear pretty confusing when you first look at them. We’ll explain this in more detail in this guidance document. [Read more →]
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This article discusses how to use Concentration Limits on Safety Data Sheets and how they are calculated.
Section 16 of an EC Safety Data Sheet can contain Concentration Limits for various hazards. These can be used to determine if a particular hazard should apply to a downstream product.
This is another tricky concept of the Dangerous Preparations Directive. In essence, when totalling the TFVs (Click here to find out more about TFVs) for a cumulative hazard, you must only consider ingredients present at a concentration at or above a specified limit for the particular hazard – the “Lower Limit of Concentration” – ignore ingredients with a lower concentration. [Read more →]
Some ingredients accumulate with each other for IFRA, and have the same IFRA limits across the group. Good examples are Rose Ketones (Damascones) and Methyl Ionones.
The health and safety information for the individual materials is different, but they must also behave as a group for IFRA calculations.
This is a tutorial for original Formpak explaining how this is achieved.
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