We all drink water throughout our lives, meaning that high quality water is essential to good health. Water testing enables individuals to identify contaminants that can harm their well-being. Regular testing can reveal problems with building infrastructure, like plumbing, and extend the service life of water filters and filtration systems. It can also help preserve the environment, benefiting aquatic life and improving sustainability.
Self-performed food and beverage testing can assure consumers of product safety by allowing them to ensure a product’s compliance with established standards. Oftentimes, producers cannot guarantee the quality of their foodstuffs. However, given the threat that unscrupulous manufacturers can pose to customers’ health and safety, it is critical that consumers be capable of evaluating quality themselves.
Cosmetics are inherently a concoction of chemicals and given that these components must be sourced from various suppliers, there are abundant opportunities for contamination with harmful substances. As in other industries, the quality of a product is not always guaranteed. Therefore, we are working on technologies for personal use which can enable consumers to verify the safety of a wide range of cosmetic products.
Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has offered relief and remedy to ailing individuals for centuries. The intrinsic value of these medicines however makes them liable to adulteration. There are multitudes of producers and sellers of TCM, meaning that it is difficult to implement and enforce quality standards. To help those with illnesses enjoy the benefits of TCM while eliminating risks, we are also innovating point-of-need testing for various TCM ingredients.
