MSR Laboratories: Protecting Your Customers, Preserving Your Brand

The ultimate objective of any quality assurance initiative is to deliver an overall positive experience for your customers. Achieving this objective generates more sales, but even more importantly, it positions your brand above your competitors. Continuously protecting your brand's image requires a strategy that looks further ahead than just one successful product.

MSR Laboratories: An Intelligent Strategy for Consumer Product Quality Assurance

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Toy Testing

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Toys and children's products have been under scrutiny since the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA) was enacted. In order to deliver both high quality and safe products to US consumers, manufacturers must have a complete understanding of the differences between a toy, children's product, child care article, and durable nursery goods. Do you?

Analytical Services

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MSR offers comprehensive analytical chemistry services to satisfy CPSIA and other regulatory requirements. Ensure your products are evaluated for heavy metals including lead & cadmium, phthalates, FDA Food Contact Surfaces and much more.

Consulting Services

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MSR Labs offers a wide range of consulting services to meet your specific needs. Whether sourcing raw materials, evaluating product designs, or reverse engineering product defects contact MSR Labs for a free initial consultation.

Flammability Testing

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ATV Testing

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One of the most dangerous products sold in the United States, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), are All-Terrain Vehicles (ATV's). In 2008, ATV's accounted for more than 135,000 injuries, of which 28% were operators under the age of 16. MSR Labs consults with manufacturers to develop & submit ATV Action Plans and fully certifies all ATV labeling, functionality & performance criteria according to CPSC guidelines.

Hard Goods

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Despite the overwhelming focus on new federal and state regulations for product safety over the last few years, another critical area of quality assurance testing is product performance. Testing physical and mechanical properties is essential to ensuring customer satisfaction. Furthermore, MSR Laboratories can benchmark your testing program against your top competitors.

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Analytical Testing

Consumer Product Safety & Analytical Testing

In this day and age of constant recalls for toys and other consumer products that contain lead and other hazardous substances, consumer product companies are now being subjected more than ever to constantly tightening regulations for the safety of consumers. First among these is the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA). Don’t let the CPSIA be the pitfall of your success. Let us guide you through the challenging and complex world of consumer product safety standards. When you work with MSR you can count on fast and accurate analytical testing results every time. In addition, MSR is ISO 17025 accredited and registered with the CPSC to perform Lead in Surface Coatings Testing, so give us a try today and have confidence that your products will earn the trust of consumers.

Regulatory Compliance Management

At MSR, we work very closely with our customers to educate and assist them in the dynamic world of analytical testing.Getting to know our customers’ core business is a pivotal portion of our success. Whether we arrange for raw material pickup at the factories or test samples from retail shelves as part of an ongoing quality management service, we are a leading source of analytical services today.

Analytical Services

MSR offers a wide range of analytical services running the gamut of wet chemistry options. We can perform total digestions (such as for the CPSIA lead in substrates requirement), or soluble extractions (such as for the ASTM F963 Soluble Heavy Metals requirements). We then analyze your samples for elemental hazards using our state of the art ICP-OES technology.

Some of the Many Services Offered:

• 16 CFR 1303 – Lead Content
• ASTM F963 – Heavy Metals
• EN 71 Part III – Heavy Metals
• Phthalates testing (required by the CPSIA)
• CPSC Interim Policy on Lead in Metal Jewelry Parts I & II
• California Proposition 65 Compliance
• EPA 3050B
• ASTM E1645/E1613
• CPSC-CH-E1001-08
• Nickel Spot Test (EN 12471)
• Leachable Lead & Cadmium in Ceramicware (AOAC 973.32, AOAC 973.82)
• Canada’s CHPA Heavy Metals Testing, Children’s Jewelry Testing and Lead in Surface Coatings Testing