LINK: http://www.slate.com/id/2168765
Neat little article about toy safety testing from Slate's Explainer. I didn't know that the vast majority of testing was voluntary, but I should have realized it would be so. One of the tests they didn't mention is the bane of all Transformers collectors: the Drop Test (where they drop a toy from X height to see what breaks off) is what stopped Hasbro from re-releasing Fortress Maximus in the R.I.D. era.