Sentence examples for product safety tests from inspiring English sources

DETROIT — Underwriters Laboratories, a company that develops product safety tests, is strengthening its lithium-ion battery standards after a string of battery failures that shed light on the technology's weak spots.

Small toymakers and sellers are particularly irked by the fact that the new law allows large toy manufacturers, like Mattel, to conduct their product safety tests in their own labs, which must be certified by the federal government, while handicrafters would have to use third-party labs.

Those plans foundered, though, in the face of prohibitively expensive product safety testing.

"Somebody might say it works fine, but U.L. has not certified it," he said, referring to the product safety testing laboratory.

ICCVAM's focused efforts have resulted in approved alternative test methods for many types of product safety testing, including the four most commonly conducted safety tests: acute oral toxicity, dermal irritation/corrosion, ocular irritation/corrosion, and allergic contact dermatitis.

In April 2013 both the Consumer Product Safety Commission and UL LLC (formerly Underwriters Laboratory), an independent, nonprofit product safety testing and certification organization, held meetings to address questions about the safety and effectiveness of flame retardants.

For example, FDA has authority over the estimated 5,000 cosmetic chemicals, but FDA has no authority to require any information from the manufacturer or to mandate product safety testing.

The benefits, says Stokes, will include a reduction in the use of animals for product safety testing and improved public health with the availability of more predictive toxicity tests achieved through advances in understanding of toxic mechanisms and incorporation of new technologies.

For most products, safety tests are done voluntarily by producers.

The website where it was offered for sale crashed, and then there were delays in getting the product safety-tested.

Underwriters Laboratories, or UL, is that independent, nonprofit that does product-safety testing and certification.