Trace metals and restricted substances, for a domestic and export audience.
Toys, children's products, jewellery, textiles, footwear and general household goods, subject to safety limits driven by domestic regulation and export market requirements.
Toys, children's products, jewellery, textiles, footwear and general household goods are subject to safety limits on trace metals and certain chemical additives, driven by both domestic regulation and — critically for South African manufacturers — export market requirements that are frequently stricter than local rules.
The same testing need, mapped onto local and destination-market frameworks.
For a South African audience, the underlying testing need — trace metals and restricted substances in consumer products — maps onto National Regulator for Compulsory Specifications (NRCS) requirements for toys and certain consumer products, SABS product safety standards, and export compliance to the EU Toy Safety Directive, US CPSIA/CPSC limits and UK equivalents, which are often the practical testing target even for domestically-focused manufacturers benchmarking against international best practice.
Lead
In children's metal products (including jewellery), non-metal products, and surface coatings/paint.
Phthalates
Plasticisers restricted in children's toys and childcare articles.
Cadmium & other heavy metals
Depending on the applicable standard.
General trace metal screening
Across plastics, textiles and composite consumer goods.
Ahead of the ICP that reports the result.
MARS 6
Batch digestion of plastics, metal components, textiles and composite goods ahead of ICP analysis for lead, cadmium and other restricted elements.
View product →BLADE
Sequential digestion where sample types vary run to run.
View product →Phoenix BLACK
Ash/filler content in plastic components.
View product →Precision Glassblowing consumables
For the ICP-OES/ICP-MS instrument reporting the final result, whatever brand it is.
View product →South African toy and consumer-goods exporters testing to EU, UK and US market limits.
- · Toy and childcare product manufacturers
- · Textile and footwear exporters
- · Independent product-safety testing laboratories
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