{"id":2259,"date":"2016-12-18T07:47:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T23:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2016-12-04T14:49:52","modified_gmt":"2016-12-04T06:49:52","slug":"fake-apple-chargers-fail-safety-tests-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/fake-apple-chargers-fail-safety-tests-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Apple chargers fail safety tests – BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Investigators warn of potentially fatal risks after 99% of fake Apple chargers fail safety tests.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Investigators have warned consumers they face potentially fatal risks after 99% of fake Apple chargers failed a basic safety test.<\/p>\n

Trading Standards, which commissioned the checks, said counterfeit electrical goods bought online were an “unknown entity”.<\/p>\n

Of 400 counterfeit chargers, only three were found to have enough insulation to protect against electric shocks.<\/p>\n

It comes as Apple has complained of a “flood” of fakes being sold on Amazon.<\/p>\n

Apple revealed in October that it was suing a third-party vendor, which it said was putting customers “at risk” by selling power adapters masquerading as those sold by the Californian tech firm.<\/p>\n

The Trading Standards tests were performed by safety specialists UL.<\/p>\n

They applied a high voltage to the chargers, which were bought online from eight different countries, including the US, China and Australia, to test for sufficient insulation.<\/p>\n

‘Life-threatening’<\/h2>\n

Leon Livermore, the chief executive of Chartered Trading Standards Institute, urged shoppers to buy electrical goods only from trusted suppliers.<\/p>\n

“It might cost a few pounds more, but counterfeit and second-hand goods are an unknown entity that could cost you your home or even your life, or the life of a loved-one,” he said.<\/p>\n

Source: Fake Apple chargers fail safety tests – BBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Investigators warn of potentially fatal risks after 99% of fake Apple chargers fail safety tests. Investigators have warned consumers they face potentially fatal risks after 99% of fake Apple chargers failed a basic safety test. Trading Standards, which commissioned the checks, said counterfeit electrical goods bought online were an “unknown entity”. Of 400 counterfeit chargers, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7436,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[137,422,38],"class_list":["post-2259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-fake-chargers","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7436"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/baharinmesir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}