Consumer Products

Kid with Teddy BearLNE is France's leading consumer product testing body, assessing the quality and safety of a wide range of products and equipment for personal and public use.

It assesses product quality from every angle: serviceability (mechanical, chemical and electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility), performance (laboratory or consumer tests), energy consumption and durability.

Along with meeting corporate design and inspection needs, LNE works with the government to develop standards and tests to protect and educate consumers about safe food and health practices, as well as household and workplace hazards. Our technical teams tests thousands of products per year, including: toys, bikes, infant care items and swimming pool protection devices.

Fields of Competence

  • Children's products (toys and infant care articles)
  • Playground areas and sports facilities
  • Sports and leisure activities
  • Sound, video, photography and multimedia
  • Household products and equipment (household appliances, aerosols, iceboxes, kitchen articles, cleaning materials and products)
  • Do-it-yourself and gardening equipment
  • Automobile accessories
  • Health and safety products (dental products, condoms, breathalysers, etc.)
  • Jewelry and silver

LNE services

  • Validation of product design
  • Prototype assessment
  • Consumers tests

Assessment of quality and performance

  • Tests to ensure conformity to standards or to a product's reference specifications
  • Verification of assembly, machining and finishing
  • Controlled use by consumer panels to assess ease of use and clarity of instruction leaflet

Safety and Conformity Assessments

  • Conformity to French legal requirements covering bicycles, infant care products, play ground areas, ladders, open fireplaces, paraffin stoves
  • Technical assistance to qualify products for CE marking: electrical safety, electromagnetic compatibility, physical, chemical and mechanical safety, inflammability, sound level, performance under pressure

Services for distributors

  • At product listing stage: comparative tests to facilitate selection, definition of purchase specifications to ensure compliance with statutory requirements
  • On shipment or delivery of products: spot checks and partial conformity tests
  • Certification
  • French NF mark awarded (under authority of French standards association AFNOR) for numerous consumer products
  • German GS safety mark awarded

Find Out More

LNE/G-MED America offers in-person, online and other customized training on a wide range of certification and quality topics. For details, check out our training schedule or request a customized program.


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