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Thursday, July 24, 2008 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of Environmental Health and Safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today introduced an enhanced Chemical Approval Module for use with 3E Online® - MSDS, the Company's award-winning Material Safety Data Sheet management system. The Module facilitates informed decision making by allowing Chemical Approval managers quick and easy access to directly relevant regulatory data for reference when deciding whether to approve or deny a product.

The Chemical Approval Module also allows the Chemical Approval manager to filter products by relevant regulatory lists associated with the products under review. With this new functionality, the user will be able to quickly see how products pending approval are regulated by the 40+ regulatory lists maintained in 3E Online. 3E Company's Ariel regulatory data spans more than 75 countries around the world and provides unprecedented support for identifying, monitoring and complying with both new and existing EH&S regulations.

The enhanced Chemical Approval Module also enables:

• Custom list creation. Users can now create a custom list by adding any one of the standard regulatory lists, or a combination of lists. Once the custom list is created, users can utilize this list within the Chemical Approval Module.
• Access to the custom list for chemical approval purposes. Users can also review all products pending approval that contain a chemical from the selected custom list. This is especially helpful for managing banned chemicals. Users can ensure that new products being added to the catalog do not contain company or site specific banned chemicals.

"We are constantly striving to develop tools and solutions that effectively enhance workplace safety while promoting EH&S regulatory compliance," said Erica Miller, Product Manager, 3E Company. "Our new Chemical Approval Module helps Managers more effectively manage and control their chemical inventory to ensure that hazardous chemicals are used in a safe and environmentally responsible manner. This not only helps protect employees, but also helps ensure that companies are handling and managing their chemicals in compliance with environmental regulations."

3E Online – Chemical Approval Module is available as an optional enhancement immediately to subscribers of 3E Online® - MSDS Gold and 3E Online® - MSDS Platinum. Pricing is based on an annual subscription and the number of products managed in the user's inventory.

About 3E Company
3E Company is the first company to provide a comprehensive suite of services for environmental, health and safety (EH&S) related chemical and hazardous materials information and compliance management that addresses the entire chemical lifecycle. This suite of services includes regulatory research; MSDS authoring, distribution and management; transportation; emergency response; training; regulatory reporting; and hazardous waste management. 3E has the industry leading combination of a 24-7-365 hazmat mission control call center, with an online platform for hazmat compliance information management, all built on a foundation of the world's premier hazardous substance database of global regulatory and compliance information. Its international, multi-lingual professional staff is composed of regulatory specialists, experienced product stewards, industrial hygienists, attorneys, chemists and chemical engineers, MSDS experts and EH&S systems consultants.

3E's services offer a cost effective program for global regulatory compliance management by alleviating the pain, managing risk, increasing the efficiency and enhancing staff productivity and enabling EH&S professionals to focus on more strategic functions. Today more than 7,000 customers have partnered with 3E including Costco Wholesale Corporation, America West, Eastman Chemical, Temple-Inland, Menasha and PacifiCorp. 3E was founded in 1988 and is the recipient of the 2002, 2003, 2005 and 2006 Commitment to Worker Safety Awards in Online and MSDS Services from Compliance Magazine, which also recognized 3E Online-MSDS in 2005 with an Award of Excellence for its Best of the Web Awards. The privately held company is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA with additional operations in Massillon, OH, Bethesda, MD, Kingsport, TN, Montreal, Quebec and Copenhagen, Denmark. For more information on 3E Company, visit www.3ecompany.com, send e-mail to info@3ecompany.com or call 800-360-3220, 760-602-8700 or, in Europe, +45 70 22 81 70.