Sunday, May 3, 2009 — 3E Company®, the leading provider of environmental health and safety (EH&S) compliance and information management services, today introduced ArielLogic for Food & Flavors, a powerful compliance solution for global Flavor, Food and Beverage manufacturers. ArielLogic is a web-based application that offers centralized access to comprehensive and current information on flavor and food additive regulations, which is essential for achieving and maintaining global product compliance.

This innovative tool increases employee efficiency by reducing the amount of time spent researching regulatory obligations. Staff can now quickly respond to supplier questionnaires or use the tool to audit suppliers, leading to improved resource allocation. ArielLogic also enables companies to reduce time-to-market as restricted substances are eliminated early in the development cycle.

ArielLogic offers powerful rule-based decision support functionality, enabling users to rapidly identify the impact of regulations on a specific product formulation. In addition, the solution functions as a powerful reference tool for research purposes. Robust search features return critical information in a few simple clicks. The full text of regulations is provided for review, as well as more condensed overviews for quick reference.

Key features include:

• Formulation Check. Enables users to enter and save a product formulation with hundreds of ingredients by typing in the data or importing it from an existing spreadsheet. Users can enter and compare usage levels and specific end use requirements.
• Exception Reports for Multiple Countries. Enables users to quickly identify ingredients that might be restricted in a specific type of food or beverage product, country or based on concentration limits.
• Custom Regulatory Lists. Enables the configuration of regulatory lists based on customer specific restrictions.
• Security. Ensures trade secret and formulation information is secure with password hashing and https security.

""Flavor, food and beverage manufacturers face many challenges related to product compliance. ArielLogic for Food and Flavor alleviates the burden of regulatory compliance by eliminating the need to spend hours researching global regulations and making it easier to quickly identify approved uses for an ingredient in a specific country, or region,"" said Julia Tsvetkova, Product Manager, 3E Company. ""Access to accurate and consistent regulatory information is invaluable to flavor, food and beverage companies --- especially during the R&D process, when formulations can be easily altered to eliminate restricted substances.""

3E Company’s Ariel Global Research Team researches, procures and updates the global regulatory content that is delivered by ArielLogic. The team consists of professionals with legal expertise and active relationships with government agencies around the world that provide assistance in procuring and analyzing legislation.

ArielLogic for Food & Flavors is available immediately. The solution currently provides regulatory data for multiple countries throughout the world, including US, Canada, Mexico, EU, China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines. More countries and regulatory coverage will be added on a regular basis.

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.