Regulatory Velocity is now a Market Risk
Regulatory change is a continuous, global, and increasingly commercial in its impact.
Yordas has previously estimated that, globally, a chemical substance is impacted by regulatory change around every 15 minutes. That equates to roughly 101 substances per day, or close to 36,865 regulation changes in a year that could matter to a manufacturer somewhere in the world.
In parallel, Helix is designed to keep pace with that cadence, including weekly regulatory updates under frameworks such as CLP and GHS.
The implication for regulatory and product stewardship leads is straightforward: being “up to date” is now table stakes. The differentiator is whether you can consistently convert change into decisions that protect market access, reduce internal friction, and stand up to scrutiny.
Hazard class changes are a useful example, but they are not the story
When hazard criteria shift, the consequences are immediate: SDS updates, label changes, downstream customer documentation, and internal sign-off pathways. It is a clear illustration of how quickly a single regulatory move can ripple through upstream suppliers and downstream export markets.
But the bigger challenge is the total change-load: draft regulations that become enforceable faster than your cycle times, evolving restricted substance expectations, jurisdiction-specific documentation rules, and customer standards that effectively act like regulations in the buying process.
Alerts without decisions
Most solutions in the category compete on similar promises and familiar language: regulatory intelligence, continuous monitoring, early warning, real-time notifications, actionable insights, and a single source of truth.
Those are useful concepts but they are not governance.
If updates arrive faster than your internal workflow can interpret, prioritise, assign and evidence them, alerts simply become noise. Teams either drown in volume or go selectively blind. Neither protects the business.
What risk-based governance looks like in practice
A risk-based change engine does six things consistently:
Detect what is coming, including drafts and early signals.
Translate change into plain-language impact that non-regulatory stakeholders can act on.
Prioritise by exposure and business impact, not by update volume.
Assign ownership and drive repeatable actions rather than inbox escalation.
Evidence what you assessed and decided, so you can prove control.
Communicate upstream and downstream with confidence.
This is the operating model Helix is built to support.
Helix: one platform, multiple apps, one governance loop
Yordas Helix is positioned as a proactive product risk and regulatory intelligence management system designed to help organisations take control of market access and change across global supply chains.
It is also intentionally structured as a continuous improvement ecosystem of applications, so organisations can build a regulatory governance model that matches their workflow, rather than forcing a one-size platform onto complex realities.
Helix is backed by Yordas data on over 290,000 chemicals and 1,500+ global chemical regulations, which provides the baseline needed for global portfolio control.
Within the ecosystem:
Compliance Navigator Pro supports earlier visibility and planning through draft regulation access, timelines and forecasting, and real-time notifications.
SDS Manager provides controlled document governance and timely updates that support consistent hazard communication across markets.
Tonnage Tracker supports registration and volume-driven obligations in a repeatable, auditable way.
The practical outcome is simple: regulatory intelligence is connected to action and evidence, not separated from it.
The missing piece most platforms do not solve: when you need a human answer
Even with strong data and strong workflows, product stewardship always hits edge cases: conflicting interpretations, jurisdiction nuance, urgent customer questions, and commercial deadlines that do not wait for internal capacity.
This is where the “people-first” element closes the loop.
Helix was created as a reflection of Yordas values and collaborative spirit, explicitly uniting expert consulting with an interactive digital solution, backed by scientific experts.
When you do not have the internal resource or specialist expertise to resolve the issue quickly, Yordas’ Regulatory Advice Service (RAS) provides fast, expert support and is built directly into Yordas Helix, so escalation sits where your substance data, workflows and updates already live.
Yordas also states that most RAS questions are resolved within 24 to 48 hours, with a defined scope and timeline for more complex work, which is exactly what market-speed governance needs when commercial pressure spikes.
This is the difference between a system that reports change and a system that helps you resolve change.
Book a Helix demo today
If regulatory velocity is starting to feel like commercial risk, a demo of Yordas Helix will show you how to turn regulatory change into prioritised portfolio impact, clear actions, and a defensible audit trail.
And importantly, we will show how the platform connects to expert support through RAS when your team needs a fast, specialist answer to keep products moving.
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