Intertek has launched chemical smart screening, a service designed to detect the presence of restricted substances in chemicals and auxiliaries used in the textile, apparel and footwear manufacturing processes. Intertek is a leading provider of quality solutions. The company provides a wide range of services, from auditing and inspection, to testing, training, advisory, quality assurance and certification.

Apparel and footwear brands and retailers need solutions to monitor and improve environmental performance across their entire supply chain. The chemical smart screening offers customers the opportunity to perform chemical analysis at the initial stages of production, while supplementing Intertek’s other chemical management solutions. It is a proactive approach to identify and prevent the use of harmful chemicals at the beginning of the textile, apparel and footwear manufacturing processes.

This preventive measure aims to benefit retailers and manufacturers by decreasing production costs, turnaround time and the need for re-handling. Only a single sample is needed to screen raw materials for around 400 common harmful substances carefully selected from major chemical regulations.

Chemical smart screening was developed to provide a solution, in the form of an extra layer of protection, to the challenges customers face as they balance the need for timely production with chemical management strategies.

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