Accurate and Quality Data and Content
at the Core

Environmental Heatlh & Safety (EH&S) regulations impacting product stewardship and workplace safety are increasing in volume and complexity. The associated EH&S compliance data is increasingly difficult to manage in-house and requires deep domain expertise. Finding, maintaining and acting on that data can be difficult and painfully time-consuming.

3E Company's core competence is researching, sourcing, aggregating, enriching and maintaining EH&S compliance related data and making it available to our customers in a format that is easy and practical to use, and based on their specific needs. 3E's data and content set is industry-leading and unsurpassed. It is the broadest, most dynamically updated, highest quality and most accurate collection of data, bar none.

3E is distinct as a provider of fully integrated substance-level data and product-level MSDS data, providing a unique view into the impact of regulatory changes across inventories in the enterprise.

Ariel Substance-level Data

Ariel Content provides the relevant substance-level regulatory data, along with the rules, phrases and templates required for meeting legal requirements and providing accurate documentation for chemicals and products, based on their compositions, where they are produced and how they are used and distributed.

This data and content is the foundational core of the Ariel line of products and services, which include:

• Ariel WebInsight™- web-based subscription 
• ArielLogic™ for Food & Flavors - web-based subscription
• Ariel Data Manager™ (ADM) - for integration of data into a customer’s existing EH&S application, such as an EMS, ERP or other corporate system, including SAP EHSM
• MSDgen® - 3E’s enterprise MSDS authoring, distribution and management platform

Who uses the content and how?

The breadth of countries covered and depth of regulatory and legislative information provided offer unprecedented support for identifying monitoring and complying with ever changing regulatory requirements. Examples include:

• Chemical and Consumer Products--Formulators rely on Ariel content to quickly determine if the substances or products being formulated are compliant with the EH&S regulations in the intended markets of sale.
• R&D--Regulatory compliance specialists and toxicologists refer to Ariel content for information related to new chemical notifications, product registrations, export notifications, inventory reporting and supplier questionnaires.
• Product Testing--Toxicologists and hazard communication specialists refer to Ariel data for risk and safety assessments, MSDS authoring and product labeling.
• Pilot Manufacturing--Industrial hygienists and material and emissions specialists use Ariel content for hazard assessments, EPCRA (Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act) notification and planning, TRI (Toxic Release Inventory) reporting, air emissions, water discharges and RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) compliance.
• Transportation--Transportation and logistics specialists use Ariel’s reference materials for classifying dangerous goods when preparing for shipment.

What does the content cover/include?

Content is available through a variety of modules, enabling subscriptions to all, or portions of, Ariel content. And, all Ariel data is supported and enhanced by Ariel Generics, which is information that helps identify regulatory requirements for chemicals that are not specifically named in the regulations, but are nonetheless regulated members of thousands of classes of chemical substances, such as cadmium compounds.

Content is categorized into groups:

• Food Additives and Flavors Data
• Regional Product Safety Data
  • North America
  • Western Europe
  • Central & Eastern Europe
  • Middle East/Africa
  • Asia-Pacific
  • Latin America
  • Global Inventories
• Transportation Data
• Chemical Property and Hazard Data
• U.S. State Code of Regulations Data
• SAP® Certified Data

Ariel data:

• Is based on many different disparate sources, including official government sources in the respective countries
• Provides extensive coverage of hundreds of thousands of regulated chemicals, substances, mixtures, generics, food additives and flavors throughout the world at multiple levels of jurisdiction
• Is constantly changing and expanding, containing hundreds of complete regulatory lists covering thousands of data elements spanning dozens of countries around the world
• Is used by more than 300 multi-national organizations, including seven of the world's top 10 chemical manufacturers because of its quality, accuracy, and breadth of scope