Cardinal Health Joins WERCSmart
Cardinal Health has recently joined the WERCSmart program, further strengthening its commitment to regulatory compliance across its supply chain. By participating in WERCSmart, Cardinal Health will be streamlining their onboarding processes while ensuring accurate chemical and safety data is available throughout their facilities.
If you are a supplier or vendor working with Cardinal Health, you may use Bulk Actions to Forward existing registration classifications to them. Need help with forwarding? Please contact our team of support professionals or refer to the Solution Center for more information.
Ingredient Table Revisions
Instruction
We have made the instructions for the ingredient entry even better and full instructions are available when you expand the “More Information” header.
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Functional Purpose
For many registrations that are cleaning products, compliance with the California Cleaning Product regulation requires every chemical or ingredient listed to provide the chemical functional purpose. This requirement continues for these products when applicable to the registration.
In addition to products that fall within the California Cleaning regulation, UL Solutions has identified chemicals that are noted on specific regulations in place, and on the horizon, that also require Functional Purpose information to determine regulatory compliance in various regions of the U.S. and Canada. An example of a regulation would be the Washington Safer Products regulation. The functional purpose will determine whether the chemical presence is in scope for current and future regulations for various chemical classes.
What is a chemical’s Functional Purpose?
We have included a helpful hover for Functional Purpose. A functional purpose is why the chemical is included in the product due to providing some type of benefit or functionality within the product. This could be options such as diluent, lubricants, propellants, and many others.
What if my chemical has more than one Functional Purpose?
You can select as many as are applicable from the drop-down selections available.
Will my existing products require a Functional Purpose?
Yes. Should you need to forward the registration, or edit GTIN/UPC data, you may encounter recertification of the product before you’re able to proceed. Again, the visual indicator will be available to guide you.
How will I know when functional purposes are required?
We have included a visual indicator on the chemical if Functional Purpose is needed.
If you miss the visual indicator, there is also an error message that will display when you select Continue or Save.
Disclosure
We have also added an informational hover regarding disclosure requirements.
This is revised to be drop-down selections as follows, and you must select one option for each chemical in your formulated product registration. Existing product registrations will be updated automatically to Not Public or TS / CBI for ingredients not indicated to be either Public or Trade Secret, to minimize any recertification impact.
- Publicly Disclosed
- When indicated to be publicly disclosed, you will need to select the publicly disclosed ingredient name in the ingredient table.
- Trade Secret / CBI
- Confidential Business Information
- Not Public or TS / CBI
- The chemical is neither Public nor a Trade Secret nor considered Confidential Business Information.
Trade Secret
There are revised fields for Trade Secret ingredients to comply with the GHS revisions implemented by the United Nations. The transition period for Canadian GHS Version 7 compliance becomes effective December 14, 2025. The United States is in the transition period at this time, with various deadlines outlined on their website. Informational hovers are available in the ingredient table for further guidance.
Trade Secret Unique Chemical Name – U.S.
The U.S. requires a unique chemical name for each trade secret identified in the product, when SDS authoring will be performed by UL Solutions. For example, if you have two fragrances in your product, and both are indicated to be Trade Secret, the unique chemical name must be different in some manner. In this example, there is a Unique Chemical Name of “Fragrance 1” and “Fragrance 2” for the U.S. entry.
Trade Secret Registry and Date – Canada
Canada requires the registry number issued by Health Canada for any chemical indicated to be Trade Secret, when SDS authoring will be done by UL Solutions. The Health Canada registry date is also required. See the example above.
Authoring of SDS
Providing Trade Secret details for any chemical in your product is only required when the product needs to have a Safety Data Sheet (SDS) authored by UL Solutions. If you will not be requesting authoring, then this data is optional.
In the example below, the Butane ingredient is entered as a Trade Secret / Confidential Business Information chemical. Since this registration is directed to both U.S. and Canada, the fields are available for data but are only required if I am going to request SDS authoring on the registration. Otherwise, this data is optional.
What if I get to authoring and haven’t provided the Trade Secret details?
When you indicate you need SDS authoring services, later in the registration, you will see an error message advising that you must go back to the ingredient area to provide further details. Here’s the example of the error:
How do I get back to the ingredient table to fix the error?
Simply use the link that is available within the error message.
Once you have revised the information on the ingredient table, and you save, you’ll be returned to the SDS authoring area in the registration.
Can I use Ingredient Import for this new, additional data?
Yes! We’ve ensured the import file is updated with the new requirements.
Does the My Ingredients table have the new fields available as well, making my product setup easier?
Yes, and the import function remains an option to amend, or fully update, your My Ingredients area.