Toys & Consumer Goods Screening with Handheld XRF

Verification and screening for toxic metal in consumer goods are imperative to protect our children from lead poisoning and to reduce the risk associated with distributing lead-containing products.

Partially due to the startling amount of lead in toys that was found on retail shelves over the past few years, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) of 2008 was signed into law. What are the highlights of this law and what do they mean to you?

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Decreased permissible levels of lead in paint
Regulated levels of lead in all other materials
Increased civil penalties
Critical deadlines for lower lead content starting on February 10, 2009

Handheld XRF – The Ideal Tool for Consumer Goods Screening

When it comes to screening toys for lead, or screening other child-accessible products, Thermo Scientific Niton XL3t analyzers, now available with groundbreaking GOLDD technology, are the only handheld x-ray fluorescence (XRF) analyzers that can distinguish between lead on the surface of an object from lead in the substrate. Quick. Accurate. Precise. Niton^® XL3t 700 Series XRF analyzers can provide the solution when you need to screen consumer goods for toxic metals…all eight regulated elements in toys designed for children under the age of 12.

Lead (Pb)
Barium (Ba)
Antimony (Sb)
Selenium (Se)
Cadmium (Cd)
Mercury (Hg)
Arsenic (As)
Chromium (Cr)

The One to Trust – Meeting the Demands of the CPSIA

The Niton analyzer is the same instrument that was chosen and is trusted by the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) and numerous leading manufacturers and retailers in the consumer goods industry. You benefit in a variety of ways from these remarkable tools:

Multi-use – Toy screening as well as screening fashion jewelry, furniture, and apparel for lead, in compliance with the CPSIA
Handheld – The lead toy test can occur in-situ on the toy, in the factory, product integrity lab, on the dock, or in the warehouse
Fast – Screening takes seconds to minutes, not days. Decision to ship product can happen immediately
Non-invasive – The analyzed product is not defaced or affected in any way
TestAll^™ Technology – Automatically selects the correct analytical mode for consumer goods analysis

TestAll Tells All

TestAll technology adds powerful features to what is already the most versatile handheld XRF analyzer available today. It automatically selects the correct analytical mode, helping to eliminate guesswork for faster, more efficient screening. Of greater importance, this new software along with the optional Painted Products mode, makes the Niton XL3t the only handheld XRF analyzer capable of differentiating between

Lead on the surface of an object, such as paint or glaze (measured in µg/cm²)
Lead that exists in all other substrates, such as plastic, metal, or wood (measured in ppm)

Niton XL3t Analyzers – More than Enough

Screening consumer goods with our handheld Niton XL3t 700 Series XRF analyzers not only provides nearly instantaneous results, but can greatly reduce the need for costly, time consuming traditional laboratory testing.

Simple enough for the receiving crew; just press the orange trigger. The Niton XL3t displays results on the integrated tilting color touch-screen display in seconds.
Stringent enough for your Product Integrity staff, with low limits of detection; all results are reported at 95% confidence.
Strict enough for your legal department, with completely locked and encrypted data for a legally defensible documentation trail.
Fast enough for your Production Manager, with little interruption to manufacturing cycles.

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