Notifications and Alerts

One of the many benefits of your SciveraLENS subscription is that our team of experts manage and maintain each list and sublist as well as hundreds of thousands of Human and Environmental Health assessments. Our team keeps these up-to-date in the SciveraLENS Chemical Assessment Knowledge Base so you can monitor any changes impacting your chemicals in real-time. You can keep an eye on your Notifications and Alerts for any updates that impact your chemicals of interest. There are three different kinds of Alerts that you might see.

• List Alerts refer to any changes on the Lists that you are tracking for your Formulations or chemicals of interest.
• Insight Alerts refer to any changes to the underlying Human and Environmental Health characteristics for your Formulations or chemicals of interest.
• Verified CAS RN tells you when our toxicology team has verified the assessment and summary score for a specific CAS RN. To learn more about Verified CAS RNs click this LINK.

SciveraLENS generates alerts every 24 hours so you can save time and better manage your chemicals.

Your Alerts and Notifications page includes 3 main columns:

• Formulation – If there is an alert on a chemical in one of your Formulations, the Formulation name will be listed here. You can click into the report to view specifics on that alert for that Formulation.
• Type – This will provide you a quick idea of whether or not the alert is related to a change to a List that you are tracking or the underlying human and environmental health characteristics for your Formulations or chemicals of interest.
• When – This date stamp shows you when the alert was generated.

You can sort your alerts on any of these columns by clicking the column header.

You can also filter your Alerts by clicking on the funnel icon in the top right of your screen by:

• Type of Alert
• Formulation
• Created since
• Created before
• Archive status (Your alerts look at archived Formulations as well as active Formulations. When viewing the Formulations impacted, make sure your filter includes archived Formulations to view all impacted Formulations.)

What To Do When Your Chemical is on a Restricted Substances List (RSL)

As a chemical supplier, a raw material supplier, a manufacturer, or brand, you need to make sure that the chemicals you are using are safe. Often, the first step to ensuring chemical safety is to make sure your chemical(s) are not regulated or restricted. There are hundreds of regulatory, authoritative, NGO, inventory, restricted substances, or preferred substances lists available and you have a responsibility to make sure that your chemicals are on the right lists and not on any lists that they shouldn’t be on. Often, your downstream customer will identify the list(s) that they require you to be in compliance with and SciveraLENS can provide a quick and easy way to screen your chemicals against these lists and help you identify next steps.

When you see that your chemical has appeared on a list of interest, you first need to identify the type of list it is to more accurately determine next steps.

Some lists have concentration threshold values included. This means that there are different actions required if your chemical of interest is under the concentration threshold or over the concentration threshold. You can easily determine this by looking at the colored triangle next to your chemical and list of interest.

List Type	No list hits: There are no list hits for the chemical(s) in your Formulation	List hit: The chemical(s) is on the indicated list(s) and either no concentration threshold is included or the concentration for the chemical in the Formulation exceeds the concentration thresholds in the indicated list(s)	List hit but under threshold: The chemical is on one or more list(s), but the concentration in the Formulation is below the concentration threshold for that chemical on the indicated list(s)
Regulatory
Authoritative
Organization
Hazard
Preferred
Inventory
Group

For chemicals that appear on a list as part of an identified chemical group, you will see this icon:

Chemical Group

If you’re screening against a Regulatory, Authoritative, Organization, or Hazard List, the yellow triangle indicates your lists of interest were checked, and there are one or more list(s) hits but chemical concentration is below a set threshold for the list(s).

For these same lists, the red or orange triangle indicates that your lists of interest were checked, and there are one or more hits above a set concentration threshold.

Generally, if you have a “list hit” on a regulatory or restricted substances list (RSL), you either need to report or replace that chemical.

This is where our CHA/Insight report can be very helpful. If you need to replace a chemical, how do you determine which chemical to replace it with? Obviously, you need to consider many things like cost, performance, properties, etc. but you also need to make sure that you’re choosing a safe alternative that won’t be regulated or restricted in the future and avoid regrettable substitutions. The CHA report helps you ensure that your chemical ingredients are safe for your workers, consumers, your brand, and the planet.

1. Identify the alternative chemicals that you are considering
2. Create a new Formulation in SciveraLENS for these chemicals
3. Review and compare the CHA/Insight report for each
4. Select the safest chemical that meets your needs

Need help identifying some alternative chemicals to consider, let us know! We have example chemicals across several functional groups that you can add to your SciveraLENS subscription for consideration.

How We Expand RSLs for a More Comprehensive List Screening in SciveraLENS

When screening your products and formulations against regulatory “restricted substance lists” (“RSLs”) manually or with other software tools, you can quickly match up whether or not a chemical in your product or formulation appears in the RSL and identify next steps.

Often these lists reference general families of chemicals (e.g., “all mercury-containing compounds”), which requires the user of the list to be very diligent about the possible chemicals that might fit into that group. One example is the Washington State’s Chemicals of High Concern to Children (“WA CHCC”) RSL. This list includes anywhere from 70 chemicals to over 4,000, depending on how one interprets the requirements.

When we manage lists in our system, our team includes and flags the chemicals that fit into the families of chemicals referenced in these lists. This allows all of our subscribers to see a full assessment of how chemicals of interest are regulated or restricted and identify any potential problematic chemicals. For example, our expanded list for WA CHCC includes over 4,000 chemicals when all chemicals in each of the several referenced families of chemicals are included in the screening process.

This expanded list screen available in SciveraLENS gives you a comprehensive list screen that can save on testing costs and product failures down the road. We also offer the base lists like the WA CHCC list that includes the 70 original CAS RNs so you have a quick scan to see what you need to report on.

When you select a list for screening in SciveraLENS, you’ll quickly see whether or not your chemical appears on a list of interest, if a concentration threshold is indicated, whether or not your concentration exceeds that threshold, and if the chemical appears on the list as part of a chemical group.

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