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the world are doing it,” he exclaims
about probiotics.
A world of change
Soden talks of years of having to ride
the waves of governmental change
and regulation with the most recent
being activated on 1 January of this
year. To be specific, there was a big,
worldwide change requiring the har-
monising of global labelling. Namely,
the UN Globally Harmonized System
(GHS) of classification and labelling of
chemicals, which has had a profound
effect on safety and compliance initia-
tives around the globe, including those
of CCI. The costs have been vast, but
it’s not something CCI can’t handle.
“We started preparing for this in
2015, because we knew it was com-
ing and we knew we had to be ready
for it. We’ve been having to deal with
these kinds of things for years. We
have costly waste water licenses with
councils and we deal with the require-
ment of the environmental protection
agency. When we started out, the EPA
didn’t exist at all.”
The CCI is firm in its compliance and
safety measures, and know that the
way forward means abiding by these
measures and keeping their clients in
the know as to what is going on and
what needs to be worked on.
The future is probiotic
As our interview draws to a close,
Soden is keen to once again highlight
how much he believes in probiotics for
not only his business, but for the fu-
ture of chemical innovation at large.
Much of the firm’s capital investment
has gone into the creation of these pro-
biotic products, and they’ve been us-
ing and creating many environmentally
friendly including soluble plastics and
soluble toiletries for the portable toi-
let market. These may seem like small
things but could change the whole re-
ality of how things are done.
“You’ve got to add something dif-
ferent in order to make some money
out of it,” Soden exclaims. “That’s the
name of the game.”
The main direction of business for CCI
at the moment is clearly innovation.
Soden wants innovation in probiotic
products to eventually kill bugs in hos-
pitals that antibiotics cannot, and for it
to be used even in the place of disin-
fectants and chlorines – and alas, all
this from something commonly drunk
to improve stomach digestion. With
the firm’s distributors looking more
and more to snap these products up,
CCI’s direction is certainly looking to
be the future of chemical advance.