Salt and/or ester parent hazards are created even when Note title says 'Not applicable'

[Mike Dewhirst]

When the software detects that a chemical has salt and/or ester parents, those parental hazards must be considered in the categorisation - unless a note exists with title "Salt and/or ester parent hazards - Not applicable".

This all happens at once and the hazards are added at the same time as the note is created to document why those hazards were added.

Thereafter, if the (expert) user appends 'Not applicable' to the note title, the software does not remove the parental hazards.

The workaround is for the user to manually delete all unwanted hazards then resave to generate only the known hazards of the chemical. The 'Not applicable' in the note title then prevents the parental hazards being added.

The reason we need to automate this is so the test-harness for a categorisation depending on the 'Not applicable' tag, is completely correct.

Currently, it (obviously) omits the manual hazard deletion step.

[Mike Dewhirst]

As an interim measure there is now an FAQ entry in https://chemintro.com/faq#saltester detailing the workaround.

[Mike Dewhirst]

Because some parental hazards might remain and others might be non-appropriate depending on the particular chemistry, it is (probably) impossible to automate this process. It requires expert judgment and therefore this ticket is being closed with 'wontfix'.

The abovementioned interim measure is hereby (probably) permanent.

Any user with the 'Authority' role may reopen this ticket either directly or via support at chemintro.com