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title: Dangerous Good - Explosive, Energetic and self reactive chemicals
description: Lookup & calculate if you chemical is explosive, self-reactive or energetic. Fulfils the requirements of the 2019 UN Manual of tests for dangerous goods
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# Identification of **Explosive and Energetic chemicals**
## **Explosive Hazard Identification for chemical synthesis, process development and shipping**
Enter a chemical name, upload or draw your chemical structure.
DG Assessor assesses whether your chemicals are likely to be energetic, explosive or self-reactive. It’s ideal for novel lab synthesis, process scale up, bulk manufacture, situations where you may not have enough material for full scale testing, or just need to identify and prioritise high risk chemicals
Its assessments also help DGSA's fulfil requirements outlined by the 2019 UN Manual of Tests for the identification and shipment of dangerous goods.
Using industry best practice guidelines and further enhanced and refined in conjunction with major pharmaceutical and chemical companies, DG Assessor allows fast assessments to improve synthesis, process safety, help with GHS assessments, logistics and dangerous goods assessments.
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## Key Features
**Check any chemical fast**
A structure based check that works with proprietary and novel chemicals, or search via a chemical or common name. Upload thousands of chemicals in a single check (.sd, smiles and inchi). Or use our webservices to automate checks from ELNs etc.
Optionally include data from Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Yoshida Correlations and scale to further refine predictions
**Powerful yet simple to use**
Easy to use and understand, even if you’re not a chemist or compliance expert. But within a single click access detailed technical information and a full breakdown of what structural elements of the chemical leads to its explosive risk.
Chemicals are group into risk categories of low, medium, high and very high.
Developed in conjunction with a major Pharmaceutical companies safety and process chemistry groups. Its algorithms and checks also help fulfil the requirements and assessments laid out in the [UN Manual of Tests and Criteria for assessing chemicals](https://unece.org/fileadmin/DAM/trans/danger/publi/manual/Rev7/Manual_Rev7_E.pdf#page=501) for potential safety concerns before handling or shipping and [ECHA CLP assesment procedures (section 2.1.4)](https://echa.europa.eu/documents/10162/23036412/clp_en.pdf/58b5dc6d-ac2a-4910-9702-e9e1f5051cc5#page=90) 'Screening procedures and waiving of testing' for chemicals and [Chemical Safety Board recomendations](https://blog.scitegrity.com/news/preventing-another-optima-belle?hsLang=en-gb) on assessing chemicals prior to use.
## Upload, draw or search for your chemical structure
### Webservices
Automate checks via RESTful, Knime and Pipeline Pilot.
### Instant access
Web based with nothing to install.
### Support
Our experts are on hand for guidance and help.
### UN compatible
Compatible with the 2019 UN Manual of Tests requirements for assesing chemicals for transport
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## Availability **Options**
### Cloud-based
Fully managed by Scitegrity. Nothing to install. Simply login and check. Includes access to our webserivces / APIs.
Our annual business plan provides heavily discounted rates for larger number of checks for smaller companies.
For larger organisations, our Cloud enterprise plan includes dedicated servers, unlimited users and checks and enterprise authentication.
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## Reference material and further reading
[DG Assesor White paper](https://blog.scitegrity.com/resources/dg_assessor?hsLang=en-gb)
[Explosive Hazard Identification in Pharmaceutical Process Development: A Novel Screening Method and Workflow for Shipping Potentially Explosive Materials - Sperry et al](https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.oprd.0c00467)
[On the Use of Differential Scanning Calorimetry for Thermal Hazard Assessment of New Chemistry: Avoiding Explosive Mistakes - Green et al](https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/anie.202007028)
[A Chemical Safety Board report into fatal explosion highlights the use of the O.R.E.O.S methodology (which DG assessor also implements) in its key lessons section as a way to identify thermal and reactive hazards. DG Assessor correctly highlights the chemicals involved in the explosion as high risk chemicals.](https://blog.scitegrity.com/news/preventing-another-optima-belle?hsLang=en-gb)
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## What our **clients **are saying****
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### Director Research Informatics & Operations
LundBeck
“We implemented Controlled Substances Squared (CS2) in our workflow about 2 years ago. The software checks compounds upon registration from our chemists internally and externally. Each compound is then treated accordingly by our compound management staff. This software has had a great impact in helping us monitoring our controlled substances across multiple jurisdictions, which was for us a difficult process in the past.”
### Controlled Chemicals Lead
Big 10 Pharma Company
“We have utilised Scitegrity’s Controlled Substances Squared (CS2) solution for several years now as our enterprise-wide mechanism for identifying controlled substances. Scitegrity’s staff continually display outstanding customer focus in working with us for integrations with internal applications, answering questions about functionality, and anything else that comes up-all in a timely fashion. Their expertise in the regulations has also been invaluable, as they provide alerts to regulatory changes and are available to answer specific queries that arise internally from scientists or management. I have been very pleased with the decision to work with Scitegrity and would endorse them, and their products, to others.”
### Steven Miller, Chief Scientific Officer
Catalyst Pharmaceuticals
“As part of Catalyst efforts to develop a new CNS drug, Scitegrity performed a quantitative chemical similarity test between our drug an all schedule I through V controlled substances. In a matter of weeks, Scitegrity completed this work and prepared a report suitable for NDA submission and review by the FDA’s controlled substances staff. In addition, the speed and high quality, it was conducted with minimal oversight and interaction with Scitegrity. It is nice to have a contractor that just gets things done right and leaves one less thing to worry about during the drug development process.”
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“The software is great (Compliance Hub, including Controlled Substances Squared & ExpediChem) and I have no idea how we managed before”
### Head of Compound Management
Boehringer Ingelheim
"Boehringer Ingelheim use Scitegrity’s Controlled Substances Squared system to provide controlled substance compliance at all stages of R&D operation. The weekly legislation updates that are automatically checked against the compound collections ensure permanent compliance with the latest laws, while its integration with synthesis and procurement systems ensure all new compounds are checked.” - Head of Compound Management, Boehringer
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Safety Pharmacology
"In relation to development and filing of a new CNS drug, we used the experience and expertise of Scitegrity to perform an analysis of the structural similarity of our compound to US schedule 1 to 5 compounds as part of Lundbeck’s wider Drug Abuse Potential Assessment. Scitegrity provided expert input to the assessment, provided a high quality report and allowed us to progress development in a timely manner."
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President, Neuritek Therapeutics AG
"In support of Neuritek’s development of a new CNS drug, Scitegrity performed a comprehensive chemical similarity assessment to compounds controlled under Schedules 1-5 of the United States Controlled Substances Act. The work was done quickly, precisely and with outstanding diligence. The interactions with the Scitegrity team were nothing but pleasant. The report was clear, provided the necessary data to answer the scientific questions and supported our efforts of de-risking and progressing with our drug development program"****
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