3E Company introduces new version of MSDgen SDS authoring system for streamlined GHS and REACH Conformance
MSDgen 6.55 addresses the EU's latest REACH requirements and offers new formulation range functionality for GHS health and environment classifications
3E Company, a leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today announced the immediate availability of MSDgen® 6.55, the latest version of its safety data sheet (SDS) authoring system. The new release includes numerous enhancements aimed at simplifying global hazard communication initiatives, including expanded regulatory information for Indonesia's and the Philippines' adaptations of the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System for the Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) and the European Union's Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation. 3E Company is a Verisk Analytics (Nasdaq:VRSK) business.
MSDgen 6.55 fully aligns with the EU's REACH Annex II requirements, which necessitate a new SDS format starting June 1, 2015. The new format reflects classification, labeling, and packaging (CLP) only, eliminating the dangerous substances directive (DSD)/dangerous products directive (DPD) details present in the hybrid version. Working closely with regional specialists, 3E Company has extended MSDgen to support the new Indonesia and Philippine GHS regulations. The latest version supports those authorities, as well as Russia's Interstate Council for Standardization, Metrology and Certification of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), which issued five new "GOST" (state) standards for classification and labeling of chemicals based on the fourth revised edition of the UN's GHS, effective August 1, 2014.