About the author
Joe Bradley is a Biochemist with decades of experience in controlled drug regulations, drug discovery and cheminformatics. He has spent the last 12 years working to improve controlled drug and regulatory compliance within the chemicals and pharmaceuticals industry, through the development of software solutions which allows the rapid and accurate identification of controlled and regulated chemicals.
He founded Scitegrity in 2011 and the tools he helped create are now used by many of the worlds top chemical and pharmaceutical companies, specialist controlled drug suppliers and regulators.
He has consulted for regulators globally, helping to refine and assess the impact of proposed controlled drug regulations before final enactment.
When not absorbed in chemical regulations you'll find him on is skateboard, trials bike or with snooker cue in hand.
Controlled Substances Squared provides pharmaceutical and chemical suppliers with the fastest, most scalable route to determining whether any compound is controlled or regulated anywhere in the world. Built to handle everything from single structures to enterprise-scale libraries, it enables rapid screening of both known and novel substances against continuously updated global legislation, including complex generic statements and analog provisions.
Through robust APIs and integrations with platforms such as KNIME, Pipeline Pilot, LIMs and ELNs, compliance checks can be embedded directly into discovery, procurement, synthesis and inventory workflows, so that regulatory assessment becomes an automatic, real-time step rather than a separate, manual process.
The system also generates consistent, data-driven outputs suitable for inclusion in regulatory submissions and reports to authorities such as the DEA, helping organisations demonstrate compliance, due diligence, tracking, reproducibility and comprehensive legislative coverage while significantly reducing the administrative burden on scientific and compliance teams.
It currently covers over 28 countries plus international conventions and regulations with weekly updates.
Key features and coverage
Controlled Substances Squared screens chemical structures or compound lists against the latest controlled substance laws, flagging regulated substances and identifying legal requirements for shipping or research in multiple countries
Supported countries and conventions include:- Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Chemical Weapons Convention, China, Denmark, European Union, Finland, France, Germany, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Montreal Ozone Protocol, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Rotterdam Convention, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UN (INCB), United Kingdom, United States of America, Wassenaar Arrangement and World Anti-Doping Agency
Users can extend coverage by requesting new legislation, or creating your own chemical rules or lists
Controlled substance monitoring and tracking the system can be setup to continously monitor and check all your chemicals, even if you have millions of them, so you know exactly what regulated chemicals you haveLegislation support and advice from our experts - we have decades of experience in controlled drug laws, with cross industry learnings that you can also access via e-mail support, simply ask us your question to our support team.
Results you can trust, we are used and trusted at the Enterprise level by 5 of the worlds top 10 pharma companies, specialist controlled drug suppliers, regulators, CROs and more. Read some of our testimonials yourself here
Do you want to be able to easily and automatically check if your chemicals are controlled and regulated around the world - even for novel and propriatory chemicals - then you need Controlled Substances Squared.
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