Household Appliances

Market Access and Supply Chain Quality Assurance

Household Appliances is the category of consumer products which is most stringently controlled by consumer associations, retailers and end-user expectations.

Ensuring your appliances meet the market's safety requirements and deliver on their specified performance is therefore a major concern for manufacturers and importers.

Eurofins laboratories offer quality assurance and quality control for every step in the domestic and professional appliances' design, manufacturing and retail supply chain. Our unique combination of expertise, experience and global locations allows our teams to provide professional, tailor-made end-to-end solutions.

Product ranges we serve include:

• Kitchen appliances, cooking and baking
• Coffee machines
• Refrigerators and freezers
• Dishwashers
• Ironing Systems
• Vacuum cleaners, Automatic Floor Cleaning System
• Storage water heaters
• Showers and toilets
• Personal care appliances, like toothbrush, shavers, etc.
• Multimedia equipment and Audio/video equipment
• Information technology equipment
• Radio & Wireless
• Power tools

Household Domestic Appliance Testing Services
Compliance and performance testing* **

At our five accredited test laboratories throughout Switzerland, we are offering a comprehensive suite of testing services for household and domestic appliances. It ranges from testing for pre-compliance, compliance to products specific standards through to bespoke client-requirements in order to help our customers through the CE marking and other global compliance certification processes.

Electrical Product Safety

Our accredited Electrical Safety testing for compliance with the Low Voltage Directive, 2014/35/EU includes IEC/EN 60335-1, IEC/EN 60335-2-X and EN 60065 which covers household appliances for CE Marking.

We also offer CB scheme certification for global market access including the MET-Lab mark for access to North America and Canada.

Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC)

Under the EMC Directive, 2014/30/EU, consumer products are mainly covered by the household appliance standards EN 55014, but others such as the multimedia standards and generic standards may apply. Your Eurofins E&E laboratory in Switzerland will be able to advise you on the most appropriate standards to certify your product for CE marking and other global certifications.

Radio & Wireless

We offer radio testing for equipment with embedded wireless technology; whether it be to check pre-tested modules incorporated into your product or full compliance testing.

Testing to EN 300-220, EN 300-330 and the EN 301-489 series is offered to address both the radio and radio-emc aspects of the product.

Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency is becoming increasingly important for electrical and electronic consumer and industrial products used in the home and workplace. To reduce energy consumption when in use, on standby and off modes, regional, national and international regulations are in force including the Ecodesign Directive 2009/125/EC.

Acoustic Emissions

Batteries Testing

Environmental Simulation

For a more complete overview of testing services available for domestic and professional appliances, view our testing services or contact us at CustomerCenter@eurofins.ch.

*Where IEC standards are referred to, national and regional variations are also applicable including, but not limited to; ANSI/AAMI, UL, ISO, CAN/CSA, JIS, EN, ENV, BS EN, DD ENV and BS IEC.

**The regulations and standards above are not a full list of those within our capabilities; please enquire on a case by case basis.

Complementary services

We operate as CB scheme certification body and CBTL for global market access in a cost and time effective manner. Eurofins MET laboratories is an NRTL and SCC certification body, enabling us to certify products to access the US and Canadian markets, respectively.

Moreover, our team of Expert services, support you in the area like functional safety, risk assessment, technical documentation review, etc.