TEXTURECEL™

SDSs issued in Europe are in compliance with all applicable European legislation requirements, including REACH requirements as interpreted by the European Commission. 

Due to practical challenges of implementing the SDS changes required by REACH before the start of the Registration process, the European Commission supported the CEFIC position with respect to the following key points:

• The only requirements that could reasonably be implemented by June 1, 2007 were mainly format changes. (These include reversing the content of Sections 2 and 3, inserting the e-mail address of the individual responsible for creating the SDS in Section 1, and for substances not classified as dangerous, adding the reason for indicating the substance in Section 3).
• SDSs that do not need to be revised for reasons other than the above format changes can stay in the pre-REACH format and are considered to be still in compliance because their content is correct. For newly created SDSs, and for revised SDSs, the format changes must be implemented.
• All changes required by REACH as described in articles 31 and Annex II of the Regulation should be implemented before Dec 1, 2010, which coincides with the first deadline for registration. Until that date, the SDSs circulating in Europe will be in 2 different formats.

The manufacturer has implemented the above recommendations of the European Commission. On this basis, our SDSs comply with the REACH requirements as currently defined and interpreted by the European Commission. 

The manufacturing facilities in Germany (Stade, Bomlitz) are certified for Environmental Management for ISO 14001.

For the Natural Index calculated according the ISO 16128 standard, please refer to below table:

Product Class	Trade name and sub-class	Natural Content / Natural Index (%)
MC	METHOCEL™ A	87
HPMC	METHOCEL™ E	79
HPMC	METHOCEL™ F	82
HPMC	METHOCEL™ J	69
HPMC	METHOCEL™ K	84
HPMC	METHOCEL™ 311 – Affinisol HME	65
Na-CMC	TEXTURECEL™…07 *	76
Na-CMC	TEXTURECEL™…(09) *	71
Na-CMC	TEXTURECEL™…1.2 *	65
EC	ETHOCEL™ Med	76
EC	ETHOCEL™ Std.	71
MCC	Lattice® NT – all grades	100
Colloidal MCC	Lattice® NTC – all grades	91
PEO	POLYOX™ - all grades	0
Na-,K-,Ca-alginate	Scogin®, Protaweld® and Protanal® (excluding Protaweld® KLH 120)	100
Carrageenan	SeaSpen® IN and SeaSpen® 379	100

* The numbers 07 and 1.2 indicate the substitution degree 0.7 or 1.2. No respective number means the (standard) substitution degree of 0.9

• Calculations were done using a central value of the specification window, USP if possible, otherwise CE 29.1.
• Variations may occur during testing, depending on:
  • Individual batches
  • Inorganic compounds such as salts, catalysts, humidity, etc were not considered in the calculation

EPA Pesticide Inert Ingredient Public Tradename Database

The following Tradename Products are listed in the public facing trade name database (https://ordspub.epa.gov/ords/pesticides/f?p=inertfinder:mixtures) of the  Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) with IFF as the manufacturer.

TEXTURECEL™ (TEXTURECEL™ 100 GA, 100 PA, 1000 GA, 1000 PA, 1000 PA 07, 10000 GA, 10000 PA, 2000 GA, 2000 GA, 20000 GA, 20000 GA 07, 20000 PA 07, 30 GA, 30 PA, 30000 GA, 30000 PA, 40000 GA, 40000 PA, 45000 PA, 50000 PA 07, 60000 GA, 60000 GA 07, 60000 PA 07, 60000 PPA 07, XM 3000 PV:  Approved for food-use under 40 CFR 180.950(e) as an inert ingredient in pesticide formulations.