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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...

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

Suitability – Limit GHS labelling on final product

Suitability – Limit GHS labelling on final product How do I add suitability constraints which limit GHS Labelling on the final product? Suitability Constraints are compliance rules which are applied when you perform a Suitability Check. They are usually used to check compliance to regulatory and customer specific rules on final product labelling and ingredient use /non-use. CLP is the EU version of GHS, so setup follows the same principles. Suitability Constraints are added in ‘Manag...

Items, Properties, Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability – Limit or ban ingredients based on property or hazard

How do I use suitability constraints to limit or ban ingredients based on their hazard or property? ‘Regulatory Item Property Limit’ allows you to target a property of an item, often a hazard, and limit it to a level or ban it altogether. These kinds of restrictions are typically customer requests. People often use this type of constraint to ban or limit raw materials with any CMR hazards, or to limit skin sensitisers. You can also limit based on other properties, e.g. Prop 65 or foo...

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...

Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview.

Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview Exclusivity: This is a global constraint that is always present. Conforms if either:- The ‘Library’ of the Item is not ‘Exclusive’. The Company is one of the Item’s ‘Intended Parties’. Note that only one party needs to be Intended; this allows access to e.g. third- party manufacturers, testing laboratories etc on behalf of the exclusive Party Limit Property Minimum:Conforms if the value of the Property for the I...

Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability Example List

Suitability Examples See the article links below for examples of different suitability checking Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview Suitability Constraint Conditions Overview. Suitability – Limit GHS labelling on final product How do I add suitability constraints which limit GHS Labelling on the final product? Suitability Constraints are compliance rules which are applied when you perform a Suitability Check. Suitability – Exception for Party Suitability exceptions are used wh...

Suitability 20/07/2023

Suitability Overview

Suitability Overview Suitability Constraints are rules or compliance checks which can be targeted at parties including regions, customers, suppliers, even your own business, for example to reflect policies about ingredient use. The rules can be applied in many different circumstances, to combinations of item types, single items, items in applications and relating to the application and dosage. When ‘Suitability Check’ is triggered the item is checked against all the rules that apply...

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...