Unlocking the power of Sphera’s enhanced Substance Library

What you need to know

Ingredient data challenges

Clean, standardized ingredient data is the gold standard for those that work in chemical data management, but this gold standard is often elusive for many reasons. First, this ingredient data often comes from SDS. This is typically the easiest way for organizations to understand which hazardous ingredients are present in the chemicals they use. For those organizations that use the SDS as a source of ingredient data, there are varying levels of SDS quality, which means there are varying levels of ingredient quality.
Some of the challenges of using ingredient data from SDSs include:

• Inaccurate ingredient data on SDS including ingredient names and CAS numbers that don’t align or Invalid Identifiers such as CAS or EC numbers
• Non-standardized ingredient data on SDS including different naming conventions or different CAS numbers used for the same chemical
• Incomplete ingredient information including missing names or CAS numbers
• Resources required to extract ingredient data accurately from the SDS

These challenges result in organizations spending countless hours validating and researching the ingredient information on the SDS.

How Sphera can help

Substance Library

Sphera’s new Substance Library module utilizes our industry leading content to provide access to information about 400,000+ substances, which includes attributes such as names, synonyms, CAS numbers, alternate CAS numbers, EC numbers and Chemical Categories. These values are utilized to automatically validate the ingredient data that is indexed by our Sphera team to help organizations save time. Additionally, tools are available for users to validate ingredient data that Sphera couldn’t validate automatically.

Unlocking the power of Substance Library

accurate data to feed into your downstream systems is essential. Sphera’s latest enhancements to its substance library are designed to empower organizations to improve ingredient data so downstream systems have accurate and standardized data.

Another benefit of Sphera’s Substance Library is the increased searching power which allows you to find all materials in your organization with one or more ingredients within a particular Chemical Category. Users can search the substance library for all substances that are part of a specific category (i.e. Per and Poly- fluoroalkyl substances also known as PFAS) and see which materials have ingredients that are part of that group.

Key takeaways

Sphera’s enhanced substance library is a game-changer for chemical management, offering unparalleled ingredient data validation and integration capabilities. By adopting utilizing SpheraCloud Chemical Management and the Substance Library features, organizations can optimize their integrations and enhance reporting accuracy. Equip your business today with Sphera’s innovative solutions to stay ahead in the dynamic regulatory landscape. To learn more, watch our informative webinar on these critical updates.