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Editing a Product's Ingredients

Note: This feature is available only to administrators and to inventory assistants with permission to edit product data.

Ingredients are the chemical substances that compose a product. When you record an ingredient for a product, you enable users to find and view that product when searching for that ingredient or running reports based on ingredients. If you have access to list matching features, recording a product's ingredients also enables you to see whether that product contains any ingredients cited by regulatory lists.

Edit a product's ingredients when you need to add, edit, or delete any of its recorded ingredients. For each recorded ingredient you can enter or edit its name, CAS number, amount within the product, and any desired additional note.

Note: Editing a product's ingredients has no effect on the primary CAS number recorded in its primary information.

To edit a product's ingredients:

Starting at the Product Information page (How do I get there?), do the following:

Click the EDIT button at the top of the display.

Note: This button appears only when you are logged in as a) an administrator, or b) an inventory assistant with permission to edit product data.

The Information Administration page opens, showing the areas of product data you can edit.
In the Modify Indexes area, click Ingredients.

The Ingredients display shows the product's current recorded ingredients.
Do any of the following:
- To add a new ingredient: Click Add New in the upper left. Enter the new ingredient's Compound name, CAS Number, and any Additional Note. In the Percentage fields, enter the ingredient's amount in this product; the Unit of Measure for most ingredients is %. Then click the save () icon to save the new ingredient.
- To edit an existing ingredient: Click the name of the ingredient you want to edit. In the fields provided, edit any of the displayed data. Then click the save () icon to save the change.
- To delete an existing ingredient: Click the delete () icon of the ingredient you want to delete.
Note: If you need to refer to the product's MSDS, click [View MSDS] in the upper right to open the product's MSDS in a new window.

Each ingredient change immediately takes effect for any user searching by ingredient, running reports based on ingredient, or viewing list matching data.