• Materials and articles with food contact
  (e.g. cooking, drinking and eating utensils, packaging materials)
• Products with body contact
  (e.g. Clothing including shoes, accessories such as bracelets, earrings)
• Toys (for babies, children and adults) and joke articles
  The aforementioned everyday articles can be made of a wide variety of materials, e.g. glass, ceramics, wood, metal, leather, textile, plastic (e.g. PE, PP, PA, PES, PVC).

• Household chemicals (e.g. detergents, all-purpose cleaners, impregnating and finishing agents for textiles)
• Cleaning agents in food production
• as well as fragrance oils for improving indoor air

• Advising federal authorities: Preparation of statements on national and European legal regulations
• Exchange of information and cooperation with national and international expert bodies (e.g. DIN, CEN, Plastics Commission)
• Development of analytical methods for testing consumer goods, incl. interlaboratory tests, discussion of current topics on consumer goods
• Public relations: information events on consumer goods, publications and statements on selected topics

• Nickel release from metallic objects with skin contact
• Azo dyes in textiles and leather
• Analysis of chromium(VI) in leather
• Analysis of sensitising disperse dyes in textiles
• Food packaging: Analysis of isopropylthioxanthone (ITX) and food contamination from printed packaging

• Phthalic acid esters in toys
• Formaldehyde release from wooden puzzles
• Nanoparticles in detergents and cleaning agents
• Restriction of certain hazardous substances in electrical and electronic equipment - analysis and significance for consumer goods
• Lead-containing costume jewellery for children - investigation procedures, legal regulations

Position papers

• Position paper on the organisation of consumer goods monitoring: Food chemists continue to be the experts for food and consumer protection! (2012) (pdf)
• Dangerous substances in toys (2008) (pdf)
• Position paper on the new regulation of nickel in the Consumer Goods Ordinance, (food chemistry 60, 74, 2006) (pdf)

Publications

• Chromium(VI) in consumer goods made of leather (2007) (pdf)
• Analysis of flame-retardant textiles, (food chemistry 60, 2 (2006)
• Analysis of pentachlorophenol (PCP), (food chemistry 59, 52, 2005)

• Analytik von Bedarfsgegenständen, L.W. Kroh (ed.), 2007, Behr`s Verlag Hamburg
• Bedarfsgegenstände, A. Montag, 1997, Behr`s Verlag Hamburg
• Taschenbuch für Lebensmittelchemiker, W. Frede (ed.), 2006, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg