Materials Testing Labs Making Gardening Better; One Test at a Time
It’s that time of year to get back into the garden. This year, I want to fertilize several plants in the garden in hopes it will help them flourish while I fight off several thugs that I planted in hopes they would fill in bare spots in my garden.
First, it is NOT a good idea to use thugs for anything in your garden, unless NOTHING else will grow there. Second, my garden needs a good fertilizer, insecticide and possibly weed killer, so I looked them up online. Sadly, thanks to my ADD tendencies, I then began to wonder how the pesticides, herbicides and fertilizers that I need in my garden are tested. How do I know which are reliable and which are dangerous? That stopped my product search, until I could learn more.
As Fertilizer, Herbicide and Pesticides are developed, producers need materials testing labs such as NSL Analytical Services to determine regulatory compliance, and to test and analyze chemical content. Chemical testing and analysis is not just important when the product is ready to bring to market, but Materials Testing Laboratories may assist with product development, reverse engineering a products formulation, perform failure analysis services and more.
The types of applicable testing services available at NSL Analytical Services include:
- Materials selection for new product development: NSL Analytical Services’s skilled team can provide reverse engineering or deformation analysis.
- Material compliance and conformance to standards: NSL Chemists’ analysis can help determine the efficacy of the components and the presence of impurities in the formula.
- Product Evaluation: NSL chemists and metallurgists can provide product evaluation and testing services that help customers understand the materials issues that impact product performance including reverse engineering of components, inspection and certification of materials, quality control and more.
- Process Evaluation: full understanding of your formula and production can help evade common manufacturing issues such as enlarged production costs, deteriorated value or capacity issue surprises.
- Failure Analysis: In our failure analysis lab, we can help determine which conditions or mechanical components are causing your product to not perform as expected.
- Banned Ingredients Analysis: NSL Analytical Services are able to determine the chemicals in product formulas, and whether those components include banned ingredients. Manufacturers can address the issue before it become problematic.
- Project analysis: NSL Analytical Services skilled professionals can provide deformation analysis, useful in determining the formula and specifications for product manufacturing based on your current capability, equipment and capacity.
NSL Analytical Services and other material testing labs, do play a role in making my garden safe, and in assisting manufacturers in production of these products. When the fertilizers, pesticides and weed killers are being created or manufactured, they are tested to ensure not only that they work and hold their quality for a certain period of time, but that they meet regulatory criteria, and do not contain banned substances. All of these tests are based on chemical behavior of the compounds in the formulas.
And that means, I can look over my choices, check product reviews and ratings and figure out which fertilizer, pesticide and herbicide will work best in my garden.