Innov-X Participation and Expertise in Recent Efforts to Improve Import and Consumer Safety

Local testing company helps expose toxic metals in children's products.

[February 14, 2010-Komo News]

Essco-Safety Check

Toxic Toys—PBS Now program reports on the controversy over phthalates used in the manufacture of soft plastic toys.

[March 21, 2008—PBS Now]

Consumer Revolt Against Lead In Toys Nearly Half of All Toys Are Bought in the Holiday Season. Are They Safe?

Innov-X Systems teams up with KATV for a toy screening session at two Little Rock, Arkansas daycare centers and finds unsafe levels of lead (video).

[February 28, 2008—KATV-TV News, Little Rock, AR]

Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health has found high levels of lead in vinyl containers designed to store a baby's milk (video).

[February 11, 2008—KPIX-TV News, Oakland, CA]

California couple starts toy testing service with Innov-X handheld (news story).

[January 6, 2008—Orange County Register, CA]

Washington State home-testing business uses Innov-X handheld analyzers to test for lead and other toxic elements (news story).

[December 27, 2007—KOMO-TV News, Seattle, WA]

A recent “test fair” for state employees at the Massachusetts State House showcases the accuracy and ease of use of the Innov-X Portable XRF Analyzer in testing children’s toys for lead.

Link to study on metals and toxic chemicals presence in automobiles.

This study was performed by the Ecology Center, a non-profit environmental group dedicated to a safe and healthy environment where people live, work and play.

MSNBC story on the Ecology Center study [January 13, 2008]

U.S. Department of Health & Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt and FDA Commissioner von Eschenbach, observed a demonstration of a new X-ray spectrometer used to screen food and other products. The device helps the FDA more efficiently identify arsenic, lead, or other toxic metals in the field.

School of Public Health uses Innov-X handheld XRF to pinpoint household goods responsible for airborne toxic chemicals.

Boston University’s School of Public Health knew that XRF had been used for years to nondestructively test for lead (Pb) in homes, but their work is the first reported using Handheld XRF as a nondestructive way to estimate PBDE levels in the air and dust generated by flame retardant treated consumer products. Recently, they have been contacted to look at contamination of children’s products.