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Page last updated at 16:36 GMT, Tuesday, 15 December 2009

The strange world of product testing

When you buy a product, how do you know it is safe? What do the CE and other official safety marks actually mean?

Working Lunch reporter Ben Shore visited a product testing centre in Milton Keynes to see how goods like lawn-mowers, rucksacks and buggies are put through their paces.

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