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Evaluate Packaging Quality with Comprehensive Testing

Verify the durability and compliance of your product packaging with UL Solutions' cutting-edge testing services.
Packaging Testing Services for Consumer Products

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The importance of testing and evaluation of packaging materials

During the retail purchasing experience, the first interaction a customer has with a product is with its packaging. Like for finished products, testing is recommended and required for packaging to help ensure safety and quality.

Our packaging testing services can determine if your packaging is compliant with industry and customer-specific standards to help confirm that you are bringing a complete, high-quality consumer product to market.

Package testing offers benefits throughout the product lifecycle

Compliance

Evaluate raw materials to help ensure compliance before packaging is manufactured.

Durability

Consumer preferences

Label clarity and compliance

Worker inspecting recycled plastic in plastics factory
Worker inspecting recycled plastic in plastics factory

Evaluate raw materials to help ensure compliance before packaging is manufactured.

Packaging testing can be performed for a variety of industries

Toys

Food Contact

Pet products

Juvenile Products

Personal care and beauty

Textile, apparel and footwear

Food and beverage

Premiums and promotional products

Household cleaning products

General merchandise

Class 1 medical devices

Over-the-counter (OTC) medications

Dietary supplements

Private label

Cannabidiol (CBD)

Packaging testing laboratory - global locations

To find a laboratory nearest to you for packaging testing services, please contact us at one of our global locations.

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Why UL Solutions for packaging testing services for consumer products

UL Solutions state-of-the-art testing laboratories around the world can provide a full suite of testing services including microbiological, chemical, physical, performance and sensory testing on your packaging.

  • Accredited by the International Safe Transit Association (ISTA) – We perform testing according to ISTA standards, and offer label review by seasoned experts to confirm compliance with applicable regulations.
  • Evaluation by food contact professionals – Our team understands the strict requirements that aim to safeguard food, dietary supplements or over-the-counter (OTC) medications from contamination.

Additionally, we offer UL Marketing Claim Verification to help you cut through the clutter with independent confirmation of your marketing claims, which can include the UL Verified Mark on your packaging if all criteria are met.

For more information on UL Solutions’ packaging testing capabilities, please contact us today.

UL Solutions Retail Center of Excellence in Arkansas, USA

Our global network of laboratories offers robust services to help manufacturers, retailers, brands and suppliers verify compliance with packaging for safety, sustainability and performance. Watch this video recorded in our new Retail Center of Excellence in Lowell, AR, to discover how we can help you evaluate the quality and compliance of packaging and labeling of consumer products.

UL Solutions Retail Center of Excellence in Arkansas, USA
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