Symyx Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: SMMX) is pleased to announce that Boehringer Ingelheim is using the new 3.0 release of the Symyx OHS EH&S Data Elements database to manage the usage of regulated chemicals and reagents at the company's Biberach chemical R&D laboratories. Symyx's Nashville-based OHS business unit is a leading provider of EH&S data and services.
Compatible out-of-the-box with the Symyx Logistics (previously MDL Logistics) chemical procurement and inventory management system, the latest version of Symyx OHS EH&S Data Elements facilitates and accelerates the loading of reliable safety, health and regulatory information into Oracle databases for use with regulatory reporting, inventory management, OSHA/DOT hazards assessment and related business solutions. The database helps organizations that manufacture or use chemical compounds demonstrate compliance with critical EH&S mandates and is an essential component of a modern Enterprise Resource Planning system.
According to Dr. Gerhard Mihm (Boehringer Ingelheim, Group Leader, Screening Support Group), scientists and other personnel must have ready access to health and safety information to manage the ordering and handling of regulated chemicals and critical reagents effectively. Dr. Mihm says that Symyx OHS EH&S Data Elements, through its integration with Symyx Logistics and other applications, provides effective tools for disseminating safety information and creating essential regulatory reports within the Boehringer Ingelheim laboratory complex.
"Symyx Logistics provides quick and easy access to key EH&S regulatory and hazard assessment data," said Timothy Campbell, President of Symyx Software. "These data are exposed at critical points in the R&D workflow, enabling researchers to make the right decisions when purchasing reagents and registering new compounds in the inventory."
Updated quarterly and available in ASCII and Oracle formats, the Symyx OHS EH&S Data Elements database covers five types of safety information: substance identification, component identification for mixtures/preparations, physical property, regulatory and hazard assessment data. The database is offered in US English, French and German languages.
About Symyx OHS Products & Services
For over 25 years, Symyx's OHS business unit (www.mdl.com/ohs) has been the leading provider of independently researched Safety Data Sheet (SDS) authoring, distribution and database services and products. Providing services to over 225 markets in 35 languages worldwide, OHS stands as a premier resource for high quality SDS outsourcing and data solutions that meet the needs of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries, government, academia, regulatory specialists, pharmaceutical research chemists and EH&S professionals.
About Symyx
Symyx Technologies, Inc. is an R&D execution partner to the life sciences, chemicals, energy, consumer products and electronics industries. Symyx provides electronic lab notebook and scientific decision-support software, automated lab systems (workflows) and collaborative research services to improve R&D productivity. In October 2007, Symyx acquired MDL Information Systems, Inc., a leading provider of innovative informatics software, databases and services that accelerate successful scientific R&D by improving the speed and quality of scientists' decision making. Information about Symyx, including reports and other information filed by Symyx with the Securities and Exchange Commission, is available at www.symyx.com.
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