It is Toy Trade Fair season again and at ASL this is a busy time of the year. Through our certification of a wide range of stuffed toys as asthma & allergy friendlyTM, attendance at these events is of great importance. For a stuffed toy to pass our Certification criteria there are several principles that they need to adhere to (see below). Due to the nature of testing principles where quality of construction and durability are concerned, only toys of the highest quality will be capable of passing testing.
Dr. John Mc Keon (CEO of Allergy Standards Limited) and I were invited to attend the recent Higher Education Authority visit to Trinity College Dublin. TCD have made considerable progress with the development of the Trinity Biomedical Research Institute at a site close to the main College Campus and have applied to the HEA for partial funding of the building development. The cost of building development is in the region of €70 million and is hoped to be completed in late 2010.
Dr John McKeon, our Chief Executive Officer, recently returned from Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended the American Society of Testing Materials (ASTM) F11 committee meetings on vacuum cleaners. This was the first time a representative of Allergy Standards Ltd attended the ASTM vacuum cleaner committee meetings and ASL were invited to attended by Inter Basic Resources (IBR), Grasslakes, Michigan headed up by Susan Goldsmith. 
USA, August 2010Good Housekeeping Magazine has published an excellent article on its website with advice on relevant selection factors when purchasing a portable air cleaner device.
The article explains that an appropriate air filtration device in the home can contribute to a whole of house asthma and allergy trigger factor avoidance plan. It also stressed that there are a number of sel…
