DEKRA Product Testing

How do you guarantee your products are in full compliance with international safety requirements?

Chemical safety testing

Why DEKRA

About our chemical safety tests

Do you want to find out which substances are regulated? And whether they are present in your products? Which mechanical tests are necessary, and how often? Which documents you need from your suppliers and whether they meet legal requirements? At DEKRA, we ensure that you are aware of the specific legal requirements.

We test among others:

Furniture
Ladders
Shelves
Steps
Scaffolds
Lifting devices
Car accessories
Floor-borne vehicles
Gymnastic equipment/playground devices
Toys
Childcare products

In Europe, the restriction of hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment is dictated by the RoHS directive, which is aimed at reducing the negative environmental impact of products and minimizing their toxicity. The directive restricts the use of heavy metals (lead, mercury, cadmium, hexavalent chromium), brominated flame retardants (PBBs and PBDEs) and phthalates. It is also closely related to the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) directive, which concerns disposal of such devices.

In addition to RoHS, it is necessary for manufacturers and importers bringing products containing certain chemicals onto the EU market to provide proper documentation about those substances. The REACH regulation imposes strict restrictions on and obligations for the registration of hazardous chemicals. Moreover, particularly hazardous chemicals require official authorization.

On top of that, equipment and materials intended to come into contact with food must be subject to additional tests. So-called food contact testing ensures the existing chemicals in food contact materials will not migrate into the food in a way that could endanger human health, change the composition of the food, or cause its taste and odor to deteriorate. Different regulations exist for different countries.