Eurofins Softlines & Hardlines provides expert laboratory testing to ensure product quality, safety, and performance, helping you meet global industry standards.
Softlines & Hardlines Testing and Certification
Navigate compliance, quality, and safety with ease
With a worldwide network of laboratories, Eurofins Softlines & Hardlines provides our customers with expert testing, certification, and quality assurance for textiles, apparel, footwear, toys, and hardgoods.
Our industries
Ensure apparel safety, quality, and compliance with expert testing and certification services.
Ensure quality, safety, and compliance with expert textile testing to meet global standards and boost product performance.
We test toys for safety, durability, and chemical compliance, helping brands meet global standards such as EN 71, ASTM, and CPSIA.
From tanning chemicals to tear strength, we test leather for safety, performance, and sustainability.
Test your footwear for fit, function, and durability. We verify performance and regulatory compliance to help you meet international safety standards.
We test childcare products for safety, durability, and chemical compliance, helping brands meet global standards and protect young children.
We test and certify Personal Protective Equipment for safety, durability, and regulatory compliance, to protect users in high-risk environments.
From sofas to candles, we test furniture and decor for structural safety, chemical hazards, and flammability to ensure compliance and consumer trust.
We test home textiles such as bedding, towels, and upholstery for flammability, quality, and chemical compliance to ensure safety and quality.
From plastics to ceramics, we assess Food Contact Materials for migration, composition, and hygiene to ensure they’re safe and globally compliant.
Ensure pet products like toys, apparel and accessories meet safety, durability, and labelling standards to protect animal health and build trust.
We test jewellery for heavy metals, durability, and skin safety to ensure quality, consumer safety and compliance with global regulations.
We test accessories and components such as buttons, zippers, and buckles for durability, safety, and compliance to ensure performance.
We test garden tools, décor, gloves, and equipment for safety, durability, and chemical compliance, helping you meet global standards with confidence.
Assessing candles, kitchenware, and decor for safety, performance, and labelling compliance to ensure homewares meet global standards
Ensure luxury goods like watches, jewellery, and leather items meet premium quality, safety, and authenticity standards.
Assess the material safety, durability, and hygiene of adult toys to ensure regulatory compliance and user safety.
Our services
Ensure compliance, safety, and quality with advanced chemical testing solutions.
Verify product durability, strength, and safety with expert mechanical testing.
Protect consumers by ensuring fire safety compliance through flammability testing.
Optimise product reliability and functionality through comprehensive performance testing.
Detect harmful microbes and ensure hygiene with microbiological testing services.
Understand the faults found in your final products and whether they are attributable to the materials, quality or manufacturing processes with our expert fault diagnosis services.
Our ISTA certified laboratories perform packaging testing to ISTA requirements, helping you to minimise damage during transit, reduce costs, and enhance customer satisfaction.
Bespoke testing and protocols to fit individual requirements.
Ensure your products meet global safety standards with expert regulatory and compliance support. We help you navigate complex laws, avoid costly risks, and enter markets with confidence.
Including CE Marking, UKCA, and FCC marking.
Toy safety assessments to identify hazards and ensure regulatory compliance efficiently.
Labelling and markings support and reviews.
Simplify global market access, ensure compliance and reduce delays.
Ensure product compliance with accurate, complete documentation services.
Simplify toy market entry, ensuring compliance and reducing delays globally.
We deliver global certification services, including FCC marking for toys and CE marking for Personal Protective Equipment and toys, to support manufacturers, retailers, and suppliers in international markets.
Ensure your toys meet the toy compliance requirements in the EU with our comprehensive CE marking services.
Obtain the FCC mark for your toys with our expert services.
Ensure fast and seamless CE marking with our PPE compliance experts.
Through Eurofins Assurance, we provide comprehensive inspection services for the softlines and hardlines sectors, ensuring quality, compliance, and sustainability performance.
We conduct social and environmental audits for consumer goods, ensuring ethical sourcing, regulatory compliance, and sustainable supply chain practices globally.
Eurofins Softlines & Hardlines offers customised training on product safety, regulations, and compliance so you can keep up with industry standards.
From expert guidance, regulatory support and product assessment to market surveillance, our tailored solutions help you ensure quality and compliance.
About us
Since 2017, the Eurofins Softlines & Hardlines network of laboratories has established itself as a challenger in consumer product testing, driving innovation, compliance, and quality assurance for:
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Textiles, leather & footwear
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Toys and children’s products
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Hardlines and general merchandise
We ensure manufacturers, brands and retailers deliver reliable, safe and compliant products that win consumer trust and safeguard brand reputation.
We pride ourselves on our best-in-class laboratories, which allow us to deliver innovative, science-backed and expert-driven testing and certification services worldwide.
Eurofins Softlines & Hardlines has a proud history of dynamic growth and expansion, which includes the acquisition of the leading leather testing and technology centre BLC in 2018 and Modern Testing Services in 2021.
In 2025, as part of our continued evolution, Eurofins Softlines & Leather, Toys & Hardlines became Eurofins Softlines & Hardlines.
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