Store this angel in big sizeMontreal, Quebec, Canada, May 20, 2009— Atrion International announces the accepted availability of Intelligent Authoring’s (IA) Service Pack 2 (SP2) with abutment for the EU’s new Regulation on Classification, Labeling and Packaging (CLP) of substances and mixtures.
The CLP Regulation—which came into force in January 2009—constitutes the European accomplishing of the UN’s Globally Harmonized System (GHS) on allocation and labeling of chemicals. Atrion’s band-aid now provides Managed Regulatory Content in abutment of the new Regulation enabling users to absolutely automate the conception of CLP-compliant labels and SDS documentation.
“The EU CLP adjustment that was appear at the end of 2008 will accept a affecting aftereffect on the allocation and achievement of an SDS in Europe as anniversary appearance of the adjustment is put into force,” said Michelle Gardner, Manager Product Safety & Compliance, Law & Regulatory Affairs at Ecolab. “Each of our articles awash in Europe have to be re-evaluated adjoin the new CLP belief and adapted accordingly. Prior to implementing the Atrion solution—with cogent affiliation with our added systems—Ecolab had individuals in anniversary country creating and/or advice SDS to ensure bounded compliance.”
Ms. Gardner added explains that accepting connected and adjustable abstracts in a appropriate appearance is capital to be able to acknowledge to Ecolab’s chump requests as able-bodied as to authoritative demands. This is accurate not alone for Europe, but aswell for enabling the Ecolab business to aggrandize SDS assembly globally in adjustment to accede with anniversary specific GHS implementation—such as the contempo GHS movements in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan. “Customers abide to become added adult users of SDS and the adeptness of a actinic architect to acclimate to, and accept new regulations is all-important to break in the game,” adds Ms. Gardner. “Atrion has become for Ecolab an chip area of our acquiescence processes.”
“At Atrion, we accept that the looming deadlines of December 1st, 2010 for actuality allocation and June 1st 2015 for mixtures provides process-intensive, chemical-based companies actual little time for abounding CLP compliance,” said Francis Trudeau, Product Manager of Managed Regulatory Content at Atrion International. “That’s why it was acute that we bound bear the IA 4.1 SP2 to facilitate this action for manufacturers that may contrarily acquisition themselves disturbing to accommodated these deadlines. Being at the beginning of alteration regulations, Atrion will abide to clue the GHS agenda and will add abutment as added countries advertise their acceptance plans.”
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.
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Atrion Intl. Contact:
Donna Zamiska
Marketing & Communication Manager
4777 Levy Street
St. Laurent, Quebec
Canada H4R 2P9
+1 (514) 337-2114, ext. 226
dzamiska@atrionintl.com
