Welcome to the Compliance and Registration App Library

INCI WARNINGS CHECKER

INCI COMPARATOR

Principle:

Uses an excel database of all warnings associated with specific ingredients and regions to output the warnings specific to the product’s INCI and Region.

Information Needed:

INCI List of the products, with delimiters between ingredients.

Delimiters Supported:

Comma (,), semicolon (;), middle dot (·), pipe (|), line returns (vertical list),
tabs (horizontal list)

Inputs:

1. The list of ingredients.
2. The countries for which you want to check the warnings.

Outputs:

1. The list of ingredients that are associated with a warning.
2. The list of ingredients that are not associated with a Warning.
3. The region selected.
4. The list of warnings associated with the ingredient and for that specific region.

Export the results:

The results can be exported using the green “Download as Excel” button.

Limitation:

If an ingredient has a warning associated but not for that region, the ingredient is still shown as being associated with a Warning, but no actual warning list will be displayed.
There currently are a few Warnings not associated with specific regions, they were generalized to the "World" region, available as a selection.
There are some Warning that are not associated with any ingredients, such as warning associated with volatility or disposal.

Principle:

Uses an algorithm to compare the ingredients between two lists.
The algorithm has 3 settings, “Lax” to allows for loose matching, “Regular” for normal matching, “Precise” that will reject the match for very tiny differences.

Information Needed:

2 Lists of ingredients

Delimiters Supported:

Comma (,), semicolon (;), dash (-), middle dot (·), pipe (|), line returns (vertical list), tabs (horizontal list)

Inputs:

1. The lists of ingredients
2. The delimiters of choice (default is all of them)
3. The precision of the algorithm (default is Regular)

Outputs: Table format

1. The list of ingredients from list 1 with their matching ingredient from list 2.
2. The extra list of ingredients from list 2 if any.
3. The similarity between the two matched ingredients. (in %)
4. The positions of the ingredients in each list.
5. The global similarity for the whole list. (in %)

Limitation:

The algorithm compares words based on how closely they match. They are considered far apart if you need to do lots of permutations to match, and close to each other if you need to do very little permutations to match. This means that for very short words, a single space difference in the name or an accent, might lead to a mismatch.
For cases like "Water/Eau/Aqua", the algorith is not able to match if in the other list we only have "Water" or "Eau".
As the list of ingredients under 0.01% can be ordered in any way, the order between lists might differ and will throw orange color discrapancies in the last column.