Management of Chemical Substances

At its Safety Evaluation Center, an internationally recognized, GLP(*)-compliant facility, Fujifilm comprehensively evaluates the safety of various chemical substances, materials, and products that are developed or used. Established in 1975, the Center ensures the safety of products throughout their life cycle by conducting tests on a wide range of safety issues involving the global environment or people's health, at every phase from initial development to the preparation of products for market. These tests are also conducted for chemical substances used by Fujifilm and Group companies. The Center also conducts tests commissioned by external organizations such as government agencies and contributes to society by properly functioning as a GLP facility.

In recent years, as business expands into the areas of high performance materials and health care, we have improved the technologies used in safety evaluations, which involve environmental impact testing, toxicity screening, toxicity mechanism analysis, and forecasting based on quantitative structure-activity relationships for toxicity. We are taking full advantage of improvements in such technologies in the development of safe products.

* Good Laboratory Practice (GLP): Standards established regarding the organization, facilities and equipment, procedures, etc. that a testing facility should have in order to ensure the reliability of test results. For tests related to the Act on the Evaluation of Chemical Substances and Regulation of Their Manufacture, the Safety Evaluation Center is certified for GLP compliance by the Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry, the Ministry of Health, Labour, and Welfare, and the Ministry of the Environment.

Fujifilm began offering JAMP MSDSplus and JAMP AIS, a common data format recommended by JAMP (Joint Article Management Promotion-consortium), a cross-industry organization, since 2008.

JAMP was established in 2006 to communicate information on chemical substances in products throughout the supply chain. Fujifilm has been a member since the consortium's foundation and has been actively participating in the development and dissemination of the framework for smooth communication on a global scale.

In 2010, we started providing JAMP MSDSplus through JAMP-IT, an information system established for the purpose of communicating information on chemical substances smoothly between companies.

We also expanded information on chemical substances disclosed in our website by revising MSDS (Material Safety Data Sheets) of all our chemical products which conform to GHS (Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labeling of Chemicals).

We will continue our efforts to ensure the highest level of safety for chemical substances by participating in development of the framework to communicate information throughout the supply chain while expanding and improving the chemical substances information we offer and disclose.

At Fuji Xerox, we strictly manage the use and storage of chemical substances, taking into account both the work environment and the natural environment. In 2008, we revised our “Rules for Management of Chemical Substances” and unified the safety categorization of chemical substances so that we were able to manage them seamlessly with Fujifilm. The “Rules for Management of Chemical Substances” contain provisions on risk assessment for chemical substances, on the evaluation of environmental risks and safety risks, and on accident response and risk management. Moreover, chemical substances are managed in a uniform manner by Fuji Xerox and other Group companies, both in Japan and overseas.