Atrion International - Atrion Releases Intelligent Authoring 4.1 With Major Updates in Managed Regulatory Content

Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Canada, January 12, 2009 - Atrion International announces the availability of Intelligent Authoring (IA) absolution 4.1 - allotment of the Atrion Product Compliance Solution. The new adaptation appearance cogent new updates to its Managed Regulatory Content to facilitate localized authoritative acquiescence for formula-based companies. Additions cover localized GHS abutment for Taiwan, Thailand and New Zealand, as able-bodied as cogent adjustment updates specific to the Paint & Coatings and Flavors & Fragrances industries.

“Regardless of admeasurement or aggressive position on the market, formula-based actinic companies charge to abundantly abode acquiescence issues and ensure product-greening at every date of the artefact activity cycle,” said Frank Arcadi, Vice President of Product Strategy and Direction at Atrion. “Atrion’s IA appliance provides the a lot of abreast authoritative agreeable accessible and the automated accoutrement these companies charge to facilitate artefact compliance. This can be of accurate account for mid-market organizations that charge to attempt and position themselves for growth, but may not accept the assets or capabilities to abutment awful customized systems and infrastructures.”

Atrion’s IA appliance is a cost-effective and scalable band-aid that requires basal added assets or investment in adult systems. The appliance facilitates artefact acquiescence by automating the conception of globally adjustable and multi-lingual Material Safety Data Sheets MSDS / SDS, labels, hazard arbitrary sheets, abstracts accompanying to transportation, account reports, etc.

IA 4.1 - Managed Regulatory Content Updates
In befitting with its mission to abide at the beginning of alteration ecology regulations, and abide to facilitate artefact acquiescence for process-intensive, chemical-based companies, Atrion’s IA 4.1 includes several key updates to its Managed Regulatory Content.

Additional GHS Support
GHS abutment has been added for Taiwan, Thailand and New Zealand, in accession to the absolute abutment for Japan and Korea. New forms, sentences and argumentation were added enabling users to actualize adjustable assurance abstracts bedding and labels for these countries. Atrion will abide to clue the GHS agenda and will add abutment as added countries advertise their affairs for GHS adoption.

VOC Regulation Support for Paint & Coatings Industry
Other enhancements in IA 4.1 cover updates acclamation VOC regulations for Australia, Canada, the United States (CARB, EPA and OTC) and Hong Kong. Users can now actuate the VOC agreeable of a acrylic or chump artefact in accordance with the altered adding methods defined in these countries. In addition, absolved lists (substances that are not VOC) will be supplied through Atrion’s abstracts products, accouterment a greater amount of automation. Finally, absolute abutment for EU, UK and Switzerland VOC regulations accept been revised, bigger and chip with new agreeable acclamation this circuitous requirement.

Content Updates for Flavors & Fragrances Industry
IA 4.1’s Managed Regulatory Content aswell appearance several new additions that are pertinent to the flavors and fragrances industry sector:

•IFRA Certificate Implementation – IA 4.1 now abundantly facilitates the assembly of IFRA certificates by implementing the absorption banned for all substances - in every chic -that are belted and/or banned by IFRA. Rules are aswell included to actuate the MAC for any actuality or admixture of aroma material, demography into anniversary all the limitations set by IFRA.

•EFFA Code of Practice – In abutment of EFFA’s proposed ‘commonly acclimated substances’,classification arrangement that aims to accede with Europe’s accepted Dangerous Substances Directive, IA 4.1 now includes Risk and Safety phrases that can be calmly leveraged by accepted rules artful the allocation for simple substances or circuitous mixtures (calculation adjustable with the Dangerous Preparation Directive).

•EU Cosmetics Directive – Full accomplishing of the ‘EU Cosmetics Directive (76/768/EEC)’ has been provided in IA 4.1, in accession to the ‘Fragrance Safety Evaluation Form’ assigned by COLIPA.

Atrion monitors any changes to the IFRA CoP and EFFA CoP, and abstracts is kept abreast to ensure connected acquiescence with the latest advice available.

About Atrion International
Atrion International Inc. founded in 1989, delivers the a lot of reliable, artefact acquiescence solutions for bunch ‘formula-based’ companies. By amalgam the better set of managed authoritative agreeable into a prepackaged automated band-aid and abutting to key ERP systems, Atrion’s Product Compliance Solution ensures that articles will ability barter with basal risks to casting angel and actor value. Atrion International is headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, Canada with offices in the United States and Europe.

For added advice about Atrion International, appointment www.atrionintl.com.

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