Finished Product Due Diligence RoHS Verification Testing
The XRF (X-Ray Fluorescence) screening service provides spot analyses of materials and components in your product. In testing your product, we will select, sample, grind, and analyze components and materials from the product you supply. If there are any particular items you wish us to focus on (to a maximum of 20) just let us know. We can work either with separate component samples (e.g., an IC, a piece of plastic or bracket material, a fastener) or in many cases, remove them from your product. You may wish to supply separate samples, particularly where you are considering an alternate part. For results to be of maximal value in supporting your products RoHS documentation, we need to accurately identify what we have tested. At the board level, we need identifying information which characterizes the product and the revision level. If you have called out any particular components for analysis, whether mounted in your product or separately supplied, we will also need identification of them. Generally, only one sample will be required.

This service is NOT a comprehensive RoHS evaluation of your product to the component level. We do offer analytical services of this nature but they are not a cost effective method of RoHS compliance. RoHS compliance is most effectively implemented by the whole supply chain with component suppliers doing the heavy lifting to make compliant components. This service is intended as a due diligence check of completed assemblies as part of a comprehensive RoHS compliance management program which in general includes supplier’s declarations of component compliance. Our service is intended to spot non-conformities for follow up action and is intended to bolster confidence that existing compliance programs are effective. If your company is in doubt about implementation of a RoHS compliance program we recommend a one day seminar and gap analysis to help you develop a comprehensive RoHS management system.

Full Analytical Testing of Components
Bureau Veritas also offers full analytical testing of individual components to investigate RoHS compliance. Evaluation is recommended as part of a continuing surveillance of established vendors and to qualify new vendors. Grey market and substitute parts of questionable origin are prime candidates for RoHS testing. We offer full wet chemistry testing of components to determine RoHS compliance or the presence of other substances upon request.

UK recommendations for component supplier surveillance program  Download
Full UK RoHS government guidance document  Download