Overview#
chemSHERPA is a shared way to tell the next company in the chain which regulated chemicals a product contains. It defines both a scheme and a fixed data format, so a declaration created by one supplier can be read and reused by the customer above without rekeying.
Before chemSHERPA, the same chemical information was exchanged in several incompatible formats. It pulls that into one structure and ties the reported substances to the IEC 62474 declarable substance list, so the data lines up with an international reference instead of a private list.
Two formats#
chemSHERPA splits into two formats depending on what is being declared.
For articles, meaning shaped parts whose form (not only their composition) matters, in the REACH sense of an article. It reports which declarable substances are present and where they sit in the part.
For chemical products, meaning mixtures and substances such as paints, adhesives and solvents. It reports the composition of the chemical itself.
What a chemSHERPA-AI declaration looks like#
An illustrative chemSHERPA-AI file: full nested composition plus a compliance assessment against law-based lists. The data-entry tool and the bundled substance list both update — confirm current versions.
Tap a row marked with ⓘ for an explanation. · chemsherpa.net ↗
What it replaced#
chemSHERPA is the successor to two earlier JAMP schemes. AIS (Article Information Sheet) covered articles and MSDSplus covered chemical products. Both are now consolidated under chemSHERPA, which keeps the same basic split but uses a single modern format and a maintained substance reference.
How it fits#
chemSHERPA is one regional flavour of material declaration, widely used by suppliers into the Japanese and broader Asian electronics market. Because it follows the IEC 62474 declarable substance list, data produced for chemSHERPA generally maps to the substances other schemes expect, which makes it easier to satisfy several customers from one dataset.