In the lead-up to the holiday season in Luxemburg, toy safety was the subject of a lot of media attention.  Luxembourg does a lot of importing from the Far East then re-exports these goods throughout Europe,  so it is vital that the items are safe. ILNAS is the Luxembourg governmental department for standardisation, somewhat similar to ASTM or BSI, and are responsible for making sure all products coming in the country meet Luxembourg (European) regulations. ILNAS have a laboratory that does Market Surveillance and testing and they recently bought one of our machines to check that toys conform to EN 71 Part 1 for tensile and compression strength; this is part of a whole range of tests that are required to be performed on these toys.  This laboratory and their work was featured in newspapers and on tv. Click here to preview the tv news report.