CERT Services

Product Development Support

Food and Household are diverse product areas. Below are some examples of common product areas where CERT can provide product development support.
In addition to regulatory compliance and product development, support can be provided with testing advice, providing an independent commercial review regarding test requirements. This can address essential health and safety objectives, and provide benchmark performance testing requirements based on the desired quality: “Good, Better, Best”.

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_______ Cosmetics - Click/tap for more...

Cosmetics are subject to legal definition and products used solely as medicines are excluded. Regulations on cosmetic products makes it an offence to supply a cosmetic product that may cause damage to human health or that contains specific restricted or prohibited substances.
CERT can provide support with product risk assessments, technical documentation, testing requirements, mandatory markings and label compliance. Click on contact CERT to discuss options and find a solution that works for your business.
Cosmetics

_______ Cookware

Consumers want cookware and bakeware that performs and is easy to clean. This often involves niche products using high-temperature, engineered plastics e.g. silicone, which now commonly appear in bakeware and as accent trims on handles and lids.
CERT can provide support for material selection, food contact material requirements and appropriate labelling. Click on contact CERT to explore options and find a solution that works for you.
Cookware

_______ Cross Functional

Products in the home with multi-purpose functions. They do not have designated regulatory requirements and can span across multiple product areas. Common examples would be washing up cloths, feather dusters, brooms and mops...
Products may span across several regulations depending on their composition and can also border on ethical and sustainability issues depending on the product. CERT is able to provide guidance and regulatory support and provide you a bespoke solution.
Cross Functional

_______ Detergents - Click/tap for more...

All detergents must be labelled and packaged according to the Detergent Regulations amongst others. Detergents that contain biocidal active substances need to comply with the relevant Biocide/Pesticide Regulation and may require product registration.
Product packaging and warning labelling will be affected by ingredients and intended end-use. Contact CERT for support with risk assessments, product labelling, technical documentation, 3rd party endorsement, testing requirements and product registration advice.
Detergents

_______ Electrical SDA - Click/tap for more...

Electrical equipment or small domestic appliances are designed for use between 50-1,000 volts AC or 75-1,500 volts DC. CERT also specialise in low-voltage and extra-low voltage (ELV) that include battery and accumulator requirements. CERT support ranges from conformity assessment procedures; technical documentation; CE(RoHS), WEEE, EMC markings; identification markings and any other specific labelling based on end-use and target market. Click on contact CERT to discuss a solution that works for you.
Electrical SDA

_______ Food - Click/tap for more...

Food is a diverse area with products ranging from fresh vegetables, meat, ready meals, drinks, confectionery… including organic labelling and geographical requirements. We can help with specifications through to pack copy stage, collating information on ingredients, raw materials, packaging and nutrition. Providing support for your business with artwork and label checks, confirming your product suitability against current labelling regulations.
Additional support is available for example: QAS writing, supply chain data mapping, raw material specification reviews and data migration projects.
Food

The products listed here are only an example of the products we support and not an exhaustive list. If you cannot see your product area, please click on Contact CERT to see what solutions CERT can offer you.

_______ Food Contact Materials

Food Contact Materials (FCMs) is any material/article that comes into contact with food either at production, processing, storage, preparation or serving - before its eventual consumption. Testing can be as simple as migration testing for known elements or in the case of plastic packaging in food, could be semi-permeable membrane, full barrier coating, or use of smart materials for preserving.
Contact CERT to discuss your requirements for support regarding complexity, testing, labelling requirements and intended markets.
Food Contact Materials

_______ Furniture

Furniture can be split into two main categories: upholstered and non-upholstered furniture. CERT can provide support for both as upholstery doesn’t necessarily mean a sofa but could be a seat pad for a dining chair. Please see further down for support with upholstery. CERT can provide advice regarding strength, durability and safety testing; product risk assessments, chemical analysis (e.g. MDF), material grading (e.g. leather), labelling, legislative requirements and advice on sustainable materials e.g. CITES.
Furniture

_______ Garden Equipment & DIY

Garden equipment and tools varies from chemical-based products such as paint with specified labelling requirements, to the machinery directive for power tools. This is a diverse area in itself and draws from legislative requirements from all of the product areas displayed on this page.
CERT can provide technical support, regulatory advice and labelling verification. Get in contact to discuss your product, so we can tailor a solution that fits.
Garden Equipment & DIY

___Home Fragrance - Click/tap for more...

Home Fragrance can be potpourri, candles, room sprays, infusions sticks, drawer liners plus more, depending on the creativity of your development team. CERT provide product labelling support, advice on dealing with 3rd parties (fragrance and test houses), Safety Data Sheet confirmation, testing advice (e.g. commercial decisions - stability testing) and international legislative requirements.
Contact CERT for support with key regulatory and labelling requirements for your intended markets.
Home Fragrance

_______ Home Lighting

CERT provide support for all mandatory lamp, LED module and luminaire marking requirements. This applies to both fixed and portable lighting in the home. Common legislation affecting lighting is: Low voltage Directive (LVD), Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC), General Product Safety Directive, Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS), Chemicals (REACH/CLP) and Waste Electronic and Electrical Equipment (WEEE). In addition to labelling requirements, CERT can provide technical advice on testing requirements depending on the market and application.
Home Lighting

_______ Homeware

Products without a specified function in the home but to look nice, improving the aesthetics of your home. Like cross-functional products, this product area covers a multitude of regulations depending on the construction and use.
CERT can provide testing advice, risk assessments e.g. child appeal, and labelling support compliant with legislation. Please feel free to get in contact to discuss your product(s), so we can find a solution that works with your product development.
Homeware

CERT can help ensure your product is ‘safe’, constructed in accordance with principles constituting good engineering practice and conforms to specific regulatory safety objectives for your intended markets.         Contact CERT for a tailored solution for your product development support.

_______ Jewellery / Jewelry

Heavy Metals in jewellery have restricted amounts of use in legislation. Products that come into direct and prolonged contact with the skin (for example, earrings, wristwatches and necklaces) must not release nickel ~ 0.5 µcm-1/week, lead ~ 0.05% by weight and Cadmium ~ 0.01% by weight. Post assemblies for use in piercings are more stringent.
Feel free to contact CERT to discuss legislative requirements, testing advice and to ensure your product labelling is compliant with your intended market requirements.
Jewellery/Jewelry

_______ Outdoor

From BBQ’s, kites, solid fuel or gas burners, fireworks, furniture, tents, to swimming aids. This is a growing market with more creative products being developed. Some outdoor products are high risk, but appeal to a wide age range. Where this cannot be accommodated, they need to carry appropriate warning.
Contact CERT for support with risk assessing, product safety, construction manuals, product markings and performance testing advice. Ensuring you have relevant and compliant labelling for your product.
Outdoor

_______ Pet Food - Click/tap for more...

Most pet food is classed as compound, comprising a mixture of at least two ingredients. This must be labelled with general mandatory labelling requirements and often has product specific mandatory labelling requirements. It follows the same ‘mixing bowl’ concept as food, however you refer to ‘Composition’ not ‘Ingredients’, and the rest of the labelling for example Nutrition and feeding guidelines are unique for pet food.
Contact CERT for support with legislation in particular the use of animal by-products, product labelling and advice on testing.
Petfood

_______ Supplements

Product claims are an essential aspect of marketing food supplements. It is essential to get the correct dosages to ensure you can use the required marketing claims and meet the country-specific maximum limits. Within the EU, there is a requirement to register food supplements in specific markets.
CERT can assist with label and market compliance: addressing ingredients, nutrition, claims, market representation and registration where needed.
Supplements

_______ Tabletop

The key risk in this category is toxic metal release from ceramic, glass and cutlery tableware in contact with food. CERT can advise on Regulations, Standards, testing requirements and health and safety, for example the acceptable nominal stress in glassware depending on the application. The product guidelines and risks will need to be reflected in the labelling.
Feel free to get in contact to explore options and requirements.
Tabletop

_______ Textiles - Click/tap for more...

Products containing at least 80% by weight of textile fibres (including furniture, umbrella and sunshade coverings), are classed as textile products and must carry a label indicating fibre content on the product or packaging. Specific products will require individual permanent labelling on the product. If more than one fibre content greater than 7% is present, each must be identified with the percentage content. Contact CERT for support with testing advice, construction (weave, stitch and dye methods), flammability, care-labelling (e.g. GINETEX) and labelling requirements.
Textiles

_______ Toiletries - Click/tap for more...

Toiletries are mainly classed as a cosmetic and so are exempt from chemical labelling, unless they do not have a direct function of improving the appearance, cleanliness or smell of the human body. As an example, the US market has specific regulations for soap with the remaining products falling under the FD&C Act. The US also class some personal hygiene products as medical devices and so need to comply and be labelled accordingly. Contact CERT for advice through the maze of different market legislation, testing and labelling requirements for your toiletry products.
Toiletries

_______ Toys - Click/tap for more...

There are several Essential Safety Requirements (ESR) a manufacturer or importer must comply with to bring a toy to market. Markets can have varying requirements, but all address the four key risk areas: mechanical, flammability, chemical and electrical safety. An example is USA (CPSC Toy Safety System) and EU (Toy Safety Directive), both having robust requirements. Contact CERT for support with product risk assessment, classification of a toy, testing requirements, guidance on traceability requirements, mandatory and due diligence labelling requirements.
Toys

_______ Upholstery

Upholstered furniture is subject to strict safety standards with regards flammability including beds, sofa beds, cots, cushions and mattresses (new and used). There are five basic requirements that manufacturers of upholstered furniture must meet. Contact CERT for advice on testing, labelling requirements and due diligence e.g. batch testing. The frequency of testing is not set out in the regulations, but is dependent on volumes. CERT can provide support with risk assessments to ensure due diligence and compliance with legislative requirements.
Upholstery

In addition to the pack copy and mandatory markings, CERT can also ensure that images used are appropriate and not misleading when verifying the artwork.

Take the last section, upholstery as an example. A throw displayed on a bed will have different flammability requirements to a throw on a sofa.
CERT can help ensure that your labelling and product branding is not misleading.

When you need Confidence in your products, being delivered in a cost Efficient manner. Where you can Rely on quality and being delivered on Time.

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