P&G opens new quality control lab in Berkeley Springs, US

Procter & Gamble (P&G) has opened a new quality control laboratory centre in Berkeley Springs, US.

The new $3m, 11,000ft² Pines External Lab has been built in collaboration with Morgan County and Blue Ridge Community & Technical College in West Virginia.

Pines External Lab will assess raw materials and product samples through tests such as gas and liquid chromatography to ensure products are free of any foreign micro-organisms.

The lab will be transferred to P&G’s Tabler Station manufacturing plant in 2018.

Procter & Gamble quality assurance initiative leader Don Longworthy was quoted by Global Cosmetics News as saying: "Our vision is to be completely digital. Samples will come in, they’ll have a barcode on them, get scanned into the system, and that will direct the work to go on in the entire laboratory.”

The firm plans to make the lab paperless in the future by using a lab integrated management system (LIMS).