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Gordon McEwan
Ann Taylor
TESTING
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TESTING
GENERAL PROCEDURE
•Follow the brand’s testingprocedure
• All materials have to be verified
• Use accredited labs
• Company RSL must be fulfilled
• Ship only products incompliance with company RSLs!
Ship only Products inCompliance !!
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Certified Lab
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All materials which are used inproduction must be compliant
• Risk is color dependent
•Dark colors present a higherrisk of failure for restricted dyes
• New and not yet knownmaterials/compositions
• Only production relatedmaterial and no samples
TESTING GUIDANCE
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TESTING
WHY IS IT IMPORTANT TOTEST?
• Consumer safety
• Product safety
• Production safety
• Environment safety
• Workplace and worker safety
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WHO SHOULD DO THETESTING?
• Labs accepted by thebrands
• Labs which are accredited
• Labs which participatefrequently in round robin
testing
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WHEN AND WHAT TO TEST?
• Follow brand RSLrequirements
•Be proactive, test to eliminateuncertainties
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• Use brand specified test methods.If none specified, use
internationally recognized testmethods.
•In case of questions, do not act onyour own. Contact your customer.
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• Every test result is only as goodas the technique of taking the
sample
• Poor sampling may causefailures, delays, and increase
costs
__ Total = __ Sampling + __ Preparation + + __ Measuring
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Example:• Supplier collected a fresh water sample
• Sent for testing according to potable waterguidance
• Failed because it contained 3,000 Coliformbacteria which may lead to serious health
effects
• Could have led to needless investment toimprove water supply
• Finally found out that the sampling techniquewas wrong, correct sampling and retesting
resulted in acceptable results
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