Assessing Polymers in SciveraLENS

If you have a polymer in your product or formulation and would like to assess it in SciveraLENS, you have a couple of choices.

Polymer CAS RNs are generic identifiers for polymers. You can enter this number into SciveraLENS to view an evaluation of the available scientific literature and score based on Scivera’s GHS+ Hazard Assessment criteria. In this situation, we do not include specific information about each polymer like molecular weight ranges or residual monomers.

Complete formulations for polymer-containing products vary based on the additives used for various properties as well as how they are processed, which results in varying molecular weight ranges, residual monomers, catalysts, etc. In some cases, you may want a more in-depth evaluation or one may be required. Programs like the Screened Chemistry certification program, led by several global fashion brands, require additional disclosure and evaluation for polymeric substances. For an additional fee, our team of Board-Certified Toxicologists will conduct a more in-depth polymer assessment.

For each polymer, we will need 3 sets of information:

1. The CAS Registry Number for the specific polymer
   1. If there is no CAS RN available, please contact our toxicology team. If you have the US EPA PMN or EC Number, please provide this information.
2. Representation for all of the CAS RNs within the polymer
3. A completed Polymer Assessment Data Collection form

To begin the data entry and assessment process, please create a Formulation for each polymer and include the CAS RNs for the polymer, each monomer, co-polymer, etc. in the polymer mixture. If the polymer does not have a CAS RN, use the Proprietary Polymer SVID supplied by our toxicology team (be sure to add your other polymer mixture components). You can then attach the Polymer Assessment Data Collection Form to your Formulation. Please make sure that you include information for each of the required fields. “Not applicable”, “none”, or blank responses cannot be accepted and will slow down the assessment process.

If the polymer is part of a larger formulation or Formulation, you can link the polymer as a child Formulation. When we complete the formal polymer assessment process, we can issue you a SVID that you can use in place of the polymer Formulation.

If the polymer is sourced from a sub-supplier, you will need to use the SciveraLENS request process to gather required information directly from the supplier. They can follow the same process outlined above.

If the polymer is for customers using SciveraLENS to evaluate the formulations in the products they purchase like the Nike Innovation Program, you will share the polymer Formulation with your customer so they can review the hazard assessment information that is available (with redaction). If your customer chooses, they can purchase the polymer assessment for the Formulation shared with them. If you would like to view the final polymer assessment before sharing with your customer, you can purchase the polymer assessment ($500/polymer assessment) prior to sharing with your customer.

EIM Scoring in SciveraLENS

We have collaborated with Jeanologia to provide safer and sustainable chemistry insight to the global apparel industry. Jeanologia uses the SciveraLENS platform as part of its own Environmental Impact Measurement (EIM) scoring system to give a Chemistry Impact Score for formulations based on the ZDHC manufacturing restricted substance list (MRSL) and Screened Chemistry tools. As part of this collaboration, we provide all Chemistry Impact Scores used in EIM through our SciveraLENS® software platform.

1. Make sure you have an active SciveraLENS subscription and have purchased an EIM product package. You will also have turned on our new EIM Dashboard to preview or forecast the Chemistry Impact Score depending on the Disclosure Option you would like to pursue.
2. Gather your chemical information for each product you would like scored and listed.

Minimum disclosure requirements:

• ZDHC Conformance Certificate for the current ZDHC MRSL (minimum of Level 1 required, must have at least one year remaining on certification)
• Product Safety Data Sheet (SDS)

Optional disclosure for possible higher scores:

• 100% ingredient disclosure OR
• Screened Chemistry certification

There are two EIM submission options for SciveraLENS users:

• EIM Product Score Only (for new products you would like scored and listed in the EIM platform)
• EIM Product Score + Screened Chemistry Certification (for new products where you would like to apply for Screened Chemistry certification and EIM scoring together)

If you are doing Screened Chemistry certification and want to include EIM scoring as part of the process, the EIM score will be included and not count against your EIM product packages. Product scores need to be reviewed annually for renewal.

Process Time

The review and scoring process can take between 4-6 weeks once we have received all required documentation and information. Once we have scored your product, we will share the score with you and the team at Jeanologia for listing on the EIM platform. This may take an additional 2 weeks for the team at Jeanologia to get your product listed on their platform. You can view all completed Chemistry Impact Scores on Scivera’s product registry: LINK. This can be shared with customers.

To start the EIM process,

1. Build a Formulation in SciveraLENS:
   1. Go to the My Formulations tab located in the menu on the left-hand side of the screen
   2. Click the green “+” to create a new Formulation
   3. Select a Formulation Builder option. Depending on the level of disclosure you will be providing, we recommend some options for building your Formulations below:
      1. If you’re going to be providing the minimum level of disclosure (SDS and ZDHC certification), please choose Upload SDS from the menu and follow the prompts to upload your SDS, check the data that was entered, and submit your Formulation.
      2. If no CAS RN information is available, enter “Undisclosed” and the concentration as 100%. This serves as a placeholder if you have an SDS and it doesn’t have any CAS RN information included. As there are no CAS RNs available, we are unable to review the impact of your chemistry. You will receive a grey non-scored product listing.
      3. If you are pursuing option 2 (100% ingredient disclosure) or option 3 (Screened Chemistry), we recommend using BOS Builder.
         

• Name your Formulation. For EIM Submissions, please name the Formulation “EIM – Your Product Name”.
• Click the Save and Continue button.
• Enter your chemical ingredient (by CAS RN) and concentration information.
  • Please enter all chemical ingredient information known.
• Click Save and Continue.
• On Step 3 “Link Formulations”, click the Continue button.
  1. This step is not required but can be helpful if you would like to reference chemical ingredients you have already entered into SciveraLENS or if you need to gather additional chemical ingredient information especially when pursuing 100% ingredient disclosure.
• On Step 4 “Supporting Documents”, upload a PDF of the product SDS and ZDHC MRSL Conformance Certificate (for the current version of the ZDHC MRSL). These are required for EIM scoring. You may also upload existing certificates for your product in this step (Screened Chemistry, GreenScreen, Bluesign, etc.). These certificates will be considered in scoring. Click the Upload File button for each individual file.
• Click the Continue button.
• On Step 5 “Assign Lists for Screening”, you can search through the lists we have available in SciveraLENS and select those that are of interest to you. Click the Submit button to complete your Formulation. This step will tell the system which list(s) you would like to screen your chemicals against. Because EIM scoring does not require list screening, this step is optional.

Review your Assessment Results

You can now preview your EIM scores on the EIM Dashboard in SciveraLENS. If you would like to view the most recent rules on EIM scoring within SciveraLENS, please click here. This dashboard provides a preview or forecast of the Chemistry Impact Score for EIM depending on the Disclosure Option you would like to pursue. Please note that these scores are not final until our toxicology team has reviewed your submission and confirmed your report.

Along the top of the EIM Dashboard summary table, you will see the formulation or product summary line. We are a scoring partner of Jeanologia, and the summary line will give you a forecast of your EIM score under each disclosure option available.

Option 1 – Provides a forecast of your EIM score under disclosure option 1 which includes your SDS and ZDHC certification.

Option 2 – Provides a forecast of your EIM score under disclosure option 2 which requires 100% ingredient disclosure along with your SDS and ZDHC certification. Please note that this score will display as gray in the dashboard if your Collection contains one or more unverified chemical.

Option 3 – Provides a forecast of your EIM score under disclosure option 3 which is Screened Chemistry. Please note that this score will display as gray in the dashboard if your Collection contains one or more unverified chemical.

ZDHC – This column will signify if a chemical in your Collection is present on the ZDHC MRSL. Your EIM score will be adjusted by our toxicologists if a valid ZDHC certification is included in your certificate and scoring request.

Hazard Category (HC) – The Hazard Category score is based on an algorithm created for SciveraLENS, based on standard hazard assessment guidelines that weighs certain endpoints over others to give you a summary view for that chemistry. The summary line will show the highest or maximum HC score.

Verified – The verified column indicates the hazard category rating has been confirmed by our toxicology team and no additional work is needed to assess this chemical. If a chemical has been fully verified, it will be indicated with a check mark in this column. If the check mark is missing from the verified column and you would like to proceed with either EIM disclosure option 2 or 3, additional verification work will need to be done. For unverified chemicals, there is an additional chemical fee of $500 per chemical to complete the verification process.

Submitting your Formulation for Scoring
When you are ready to submit your Formulation for scoring:

1. Go to the My Formulations tab in the menu on the left hand side.
2. Click the three dots to the right of the Formulation you would like scored and choose “Services/ Certificates”.
3. You will be taken to the “Certificate and Scoring Request Form”. Please select the EIM disclosure option you would like to pursue as your request type and complete this form in its entirety. Any missing requirements will be called out in red font and you will not be able to submit for review and certification until all requirements have been fulfilled.
4. When ready to submit your request for review, please click “Submit for Review and Certification”.
5. The SciveraLENS team will review your submission and generate an EIM chemistry score and report. Products and scores are shared with the team at Jeanologia every other week for inclusion in the EIM database.

Improving your EIM Score

After meeting the minimum requirements, you can improve your product scores by providing additional disclosure about your chemical formulation. This information gives us more insight into the chemicals being used and is critical in making safer chemistry decisions. You can provide 100% ingredient disclosure or pursue Screened Chemistry certification for the opportunity to improve your Chemistry Impact Score.

Your SciveraLENS subscription also allows you to prescreen characteristics of any chemicals you are using for sourcing and formulation decisions. By having access to this information, you can choose safer chemicals in your work and improve your Chemistry Impact Score as well as protect your brand.

Note: If you are doing Screened Chemistry certification and want to include EIM scoring as part of the process, the EIM score will be included and not count against your EIM product packages.

1. Submit your product for Screened Chemistry certification using the SciveraLENS certificate request form and completing the Screened Chemistry submission process.
2. In the Comments section of certificate form add a comment: “Please include scoring for EIM”.

Scoring

Based on the level of disclosure provided and the assessment results, your score will range from 0-100:

Once scored within SciveraLENS, scoring for each chemical product or commodity chemical is then converted to the corresponding EIM Chemistry Impact Score:

Term

EIM Chemistry Impact Scores and corresponding certifications are valid for one year (or until expiration of driving certificate).

Multi-Certification Process in SciveraLENS

We are very excited to introduce the new Multiple Certification functionality that is now available in SciveraLENS! This will help to simplify the certification submission process for you as the user, by making the process consistent within SciveraLENS across the various certification programs we support – Screened Chemistry and EIM v2 Chemistry Impact Scoring. With the Multiple Certification request function, all certificate and scoring requests will be submitted through a “Certificate and Scoring Request Form” in SciveraLENS. Both Screened Chemistry and EIM v2 Scoring renewals will also be submitted through a “Certificate and Scoring Request Form”. You will now be able to view the history of the type of Service/ Certificate requests that have been made, when they were created, and each certificate requests status attached to a single Formulation in SciveraLENS. You can submit multiple certificate types for the same Formulation at any time, however, once the request is submitted for review and certification it will be locked and cannot be edited. The review process for certification and scoring is approximately 4-6 weeks after submission. Please note that this timeline does not truly begin until you have fulfilled all disclosure requirements of the certificate or scoring program you have selected.

What if I want Screened Chemistry and an EIM v2 Score for the same product?

To submit the same product for Screened Chemistry and EIM v2 Scoring, for all new submissions, you can follow the same process that is outlined for submitting new products for Screened Chemistry or EIM v2 Scoring. The only difference is when you complete the “Certificate and Scoring Request Form” in its entirety, you will select both Screened Chemistry and EIM Disclosure Option 3 as your request type when completing the form.

If you wish to request an EIM v2 Score for a product that has already been issued a Screened Chemistry certificate through SciveraLENS, the process will be similar to the renewal process. You will need to login to your account and select “Certificates” on the left-hand toolbar. Click “Existing Certificates” to be brought to a list of your previously certified products. Find the product name that you would like to submit another type of certificate request for and click the three-dot icon to select “Create new Services/ Certificate Request”.

Click the green “Create New Service/ Certificate Request” to be brought to a new “Certificate and Scoring Request Form”. Select the new request type that applies and complete the form in its entirety. Any missing requirements will be noted in red font and you will not be able to submit for review until all requirements have been fulfilled. When ready to submit your request for review, please click “Submit for Review and Certification.”

If you wish to request a Screened Chemistry certificate for a product that has already been issued an EIM v2 Score through SciveraLENS, it will depend on how you previously submitted the product. If your previously scored product was submitted via a “Certificate and Scoring Request Form”, then you can follow the process outlined above and select Screened Chemistry as your request type. If your previously scored product was submitted via the previous process of sharing your Formulation via SciveraLENS to eim@scivera.com, you will need to login to your account and go to “My Formulations”. Find the name of the Formulation you previously created, then click the three-dot icon to select “View Formulation”. Review your Formulation to ensure that the formulation is complete and accurate and preview your Screened Chemistry score using the Screened Chemistry v3 Dashboard. If any changes need to be made since this product was issued an EIM score or you need to upload updated supporting documentation, please select the three-dot icon at the top right-hand corner of your dashboard view to select “Manage/ Edit” and make any changes needed. You can then click the “Services/ Certificates” icon and complete the “Certificate and Scoring Request Form” in its entirety. Any missing requirements will be called out in red font, and you will not be able to “Submit for Review and Certification” until all requirements have been fulfilled. When ready to submit your request for review, please click “Submit for Review and Certification.” After submission, please add a comment to your newly submitted form that states the following: “Please review this product for EIM Renewal. There have been no changes to the formulation” or “Please review this product for EIM Renewal. There have been changes made to the formulation”.

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