On Wednesday, 4 October 2017 13:43:50 UTC+1, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
whisky-dave wrote:
The point is you can't rely on a supplier not to rip you off. There
have to be standards and quality checks controlled by the state.

But you can't check every product, what you can do is take a sample from
a manufactirer, supplier or shipper and test a few products and base
your results on that.

Given how much of that cable ended up being sold, something needs
tightening up.

I agree weren't we 100% in the EU at the time. Did the cable have a valid CE mark ?



Most people do rely on suppliers rightly or wrongly

It's likely the maker passed on at least some of the savings they made in
materials to the UK supplier.

Perhaps, but that's not how it worked with the horse meat lasagne.
Those making the food didn't get any discount, they were told it was beef so paid for beef.