Providing manufacturers and retailers with faster, more efficient market entry and RoHS compliance assurance around the world.

As more jurisdictions adopt legislation making it necessary for companies to declare their products’ material and chemical make-up, and restricting the use of hazardous substances, manufacturers and importers need to ensure that their products, parts and components comply in order to maintain market access.

There are two main areas of risk:

• Product material risk: from selecting materials and components in products and using indirect materials in the manufacturing process
• Supplier risk: from product variation, engineering or manufacturing changes, multiple suppliers and contamination through the supply chain.

Intertek’s Product Testing services can be tailored to complement compliance strategies for several regulations including:

• EU RoHS
• China RoHS
• Korea RoHS
• California Proposition 65
• REACH

Intertek offers solutions to help companies develop and execute product testing plans to determine a product’s compliance status with regards to material/chemical make-up; to determine which elements need to be replaced or redesigned; and to determine how new compliant materials and components will perform in the field: providing not only environmental compliance but also product reliability.

Intertek’s Product Testing Services include:

• X-Ray fluorescence (XRF) spectrometric analysis
  • A pre-screening tool for determining the immediate presence of RoHS restricted substances through non-destructive testing
    • External features
    • Internal assemblies
    • Packaging
    • Accessories (i.e. cables)
  • Portable, on-site audits using XRF are available as part of RoHS compliance assurance activities.
  • XRF testing can alleviate the need for more extensive/expensive compliance testing
• Toxicology Testing
  • Determine what labels need to be applied for California Proposition 65 risk management
  • Determine whether products are correctly packaged and labeled
  • Prepare and write Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS), TDS, and REACH technical dossiers
• Accelerated Stress Testing (AST) of electronic devices and components
  • Testing product reliability, durability and performance dependability of RoHS-compliant material substitutions

Intertek offers complete solutions for all electrical and electronic product compliance. Partnership with Intertek brings increased value to our customers' products and processes, ultimately supporting their success in the global marketplace. Our range of services helps our customers advance their reputation and master the increasingly complex regulatory issues of the international market.

>> Contact Intertek’s Product Testing Experts for more information.