On 04/10/2017 10:54, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In article ,
John Rumm 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.


We had in place the Approved Cables Inititive (ACI) and British
Approvals Service for Cables (BASEC) to assess, license and police these
matters.

Routine testing of samples by ACI found that some of Atlas Kablo's
cables were no longer meeting the BS requirements, and BASEC suspended
their license. BASEC also did their own testing and concluded there was
a serious decline in quality across its range of products.

So Atlas were prosecuted for supplying BS marked cables that didn't
comply?

I doubt it... they are based in Turkey, and the went tits up not long
after IIRC.

Atlas was then required by BASEC to assist the market in locating and
recovering the the affected cable from the supply chain. Atlas also
published the batch numbers of the affected cables.

What else would you have liked to happen? A central government database
of every reel of cable sold, and forms filled in quadruplicate
identifying where every bit of it was used, policed by a whole new
quango of cable usage data loggers?

If a vast amount of this fake cable managed to be sold, there is obviously
something not working as intended.

I would guess compared to the total amount sold each year its a drop in
the ocean.



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Cheers,

John.

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