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Documents & Reports, Items, Properties 14/11/2023

IFRA Classes 1 and 6

IFRA Classes 1 and 6 IFRA Classes 1 and 6 have an additional requirement – due to the possibility of ingestion, the materials used in the fragrance must also be approved for use in food. IFRA advise this means ‘that all ingredients should be listed as having “no safety concern”, for example by the Joint FAO/WHO Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA) and/or as Generally Recognized As Safe (GRAS) in accordance with the US Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act’. When...

Documents & Reports, Items, Properties 13/11/2023

Setting up Cosmetic Allergens for Declarations

Setting up Cosmetic allergens, so they can be shown in an Allergen Declaration In summary you have to indicate which raw materials are the fundamental allergens using properties. This information is gathered into a list of allergens using the property ‘AGNINGDETAILS’ for the original 26 fragrance allergens and also ‘AGN2023INGDETAILS’ for the additional 57 fragrance allergens. These properties are found in the property group ‘Cosmetics & Detergents’. Origi...

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...