Product Safety and Efficacy

A primary concern to consumer product manufacturers is ensuring that their products are safe in use and also in circumstances of foreseeable misuse.  For all consumer products, irritation, contact sensitisation and allergy, should be avoided.  The manufacturer will try to achieve this by skilful formulation, but the potential for these adverse effects should be checked in human volunteers.  At Sequani Consumer a substantial number of healthy human volunteers are available for tests to evaluate both the irritancy and sensitisation potential of consumer products.

Product Efficacy and Claim Substantiation

Manufacturers use product efficacy and performance evaluation data to assess the value and characteristics of their products.  In addition, current legislation and advertising standards require substantiating data for many marketing claims.  The type of evaluation performed, for instance, whether the evaluation is subjective, objective, instrumental or visual, depends on the class of product being tested, and the potential use of the data.

Sequani has the expertise and equipment to test your products.  We can access our large volunteer database to select panels of suitable volunteers for both subjective and objective product evaluation.  Extensive experience in developing protocols, and in validating published or sponsor-specific methodologies, means that we can:

• Confirm the acceptability of a new or replacement raw material
• Provide a competitor product action standard
• Substantiate product efficacy and performance claims
• Check that your product is effective and safe