Release Overview
- New Litagion agent profiles for diphenylguanidine and erythritol and a new theme summarizing CoMeta content related to non-nutritive sweeteners
- New blog content: "So, I can't have my cake and eat it too? World Health Organization warns against non-nutritive sweeteners"
- New feature: Exportable tabulation reports in Exposure Management
New Content
Litagion agents
- Diphenylguanidine (emerging interest). Diphenylguanidine (DPG) [CAS No. 102-06-7] functions as an accelerator in the vulcanization of rubber, facilitating polymer cross-linking and thereby improving the durability, tensile strength, and elasticity of resulting rubber products. DPG is commonly used in the production of automobile tires, mats, footwear, and other consumer items such as pacifiers, gloves, cookware, and wetsuits. DPG has been shown to leach from tire wear materials into surface water where it is considered persistent, mobile, and toxic (PMT).
- Erythritol (emerging interest). Erythritol [CAS No. 149-32-6] is a sugar alcohol that functions as a low-calorie sweetener in the food industry offering approximately 70% the sweetness of sucrose and exceptionally low caloric content. Generally recognized as safe (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Erythritol is commonly used in the production of a variety of food items such as diet beverages, sugar-free candies, chewing gums, baked goods, frozen desserts, and is also available in granulated form as a sugar substitute. Erythritol is highly stable under various conditions, which makes it particularly suitable for use in cooking and baking.
Themes
- Non-nutritive sweeteners. Non-nutritive sweeteners, a broad category encompassing both artificially synthesized and naturally derived sugar substitutes, are engineered to enhance the sweetness of food and beverages with minimal or zero caloric addition. While ‘Generally Recognized as Safe’ (GRAS) by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, scientists continue to investigate whether regular consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners like aspartame, sucralose, and stevioside leads to adverse health outcomes like cardiovascular disease and diabetes. There is also considerable controversy within the medical community whether regular consumption of non-nutritive sweeteners offers an effective means of achieving weight control.
New Features
Probabilistic loss tabulations
CoMeta's Exposure Management feature now allows users to export probabilistic loss tabulations displayed in the application. Simply click "generate reports" (1) in the probabilistic loss tab and your tabulation report (along with event loss tables) will be queued for generation and made available in Reports (2). The tab-delimited tabulation files contain policy summary statistics, portfolio-level losses, and contributory, standalone, and marginal losses by Litagion agent, company, industry, policy, and policy year. Additional drill-down tabulations (e.g., Company losses by Litagion agent) will be added to the tabulation report in the coming months. Please contact your account manager should you have questions regarding how to work with this new export file.