Manufacturing and Quality Control blog

At InTouch, we inspect a wide range of personal items on a daily basis. This includes items used in the bathroom like toothbrushes. Toothbrushes are held to a very high standard as they come in contact with your body. Dangerous or hazardus materials used in such items can cause bodily harm.

Hand washing is considered one of the safest and easiest health practice for preventing the spread of germs and bacteria. Anti–bacterial and non-antimicrobial hand soaps have vastly improved over the years, adding new features such as anti-bacterial, and scented with fresh scent and flavours. Anti-bacterial hand soaps originated inside clinical areas such as hospitals, doctor’s office, dentist's office however are now available to the public as well. Consumers are becoming more and more concerned with the spread of bacteria and infection. When importing anti-bacterial or non-antimicrobial soap from China, it is essential to have various ASTM tests performed by a qualified quality control specialist.

Understanding the manufacturing process of tissues is key in laying out a quality control program for such items.

The key to properly inspecting shampoo is to know its ingredients and be able to test for these ingredients in a lab.

A key step in the quality control inspection of a diaper is to ensure that the fiber/polymer ratio in the absorbent pad is acceptable. Manufacturers has consistently proven that the fiber to particle ratio will be in the range of 75:25 to 90:10. Another step is to ensure the size and distribution of these particles are acceptable. A particle size larger than 400 microns work well with the fibers. If the particles vary outside this acceptable range, gel blocking will occur.

Deodorant is one of the personal products in China that is being manufactured at a cheaper quality due to cheaper raw material costs. Deodorant inspections are rarely being performed during each stage of the process. It's crucial to ensure product inspection is being carried out through every stage, even during the manufacturing process.

Warnings and rumors about a dangerous chemical in Chinese toothpaste made its way around the Internet starting on June 1rst 2007. The warnings and rumors were indeed true. According to the FDA ( The America's Food and Drug Administration ) , toothpaste manufactured in China could contain a poisonous chemical that's labeled as residual diethylene glycol (DEG). DEG is used as ingredient in anti-freeze and is used as a solvent. This is the main reason toothpaste inspections in China is crucial.

Every component used in the manufacturing of baby wipes must pass various baby wipe inspection and quality control check points during manufacturing.

Enormous volumes of eyewear products such as spectacle lenses, frames, and sunglasses are outsourced from China each year. While outsourcing has been profitable for most optical distributors, a number fell into unwanted complications such as product recalls. These problems could have been easily averted if only appropriate inspection protocols were utilized.