Industry of product testing is one of the fastest growing consumers of analytical instrumentation. This tendency will remain in the near future according to recent regulations and initiatives driving greater protection of consumers, particularly with children’s toys and items such as jewelry.
Today’s consumer products testing labs are under greater pressure than ever to deliver accurate results, at lower reporting limits in line with modern requests about productivity putting them in extremely competitive environment. In this industry every step requires advanced solutions starting from sample preparation for product testing labs. The product itself needs to be tested for consistency and quality assurance before its release to the public. Typical applications include cosmetics, soaps and surfactants, creams and lotions, toothpaste, shampoos, conditioners, mousses and gels, nail care products and shaving creams. They all benefit from compositional testing and sample analysis for trace metals using Milestone’s fast and intuitive systems performing sample preparation, trace metal and direct mercury analysis for product testing laboratories.