Sorry for the Daily Mail-like clickbait headline, but there's no simple way to say it. Chartered Trading Standards Institute, a U.K. group that's similar to the Consumer Product Safety Commission here in the U.S., issued a warning that 99 percent of the third-party Apple chargers do not meet proper shielding standards.
The group tested 400 of these counterfeit Apple chargers and found only three of them were properly shielded to prevent a fatal electric shock or spark a fire
Leon Livermore, CEO of Chartered Trading Standards Institute, told the BBC that shoppers should buy electrical goods only from trusted suppliers.
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