I'm with vodaphone and they've always seemed OK!

You may think I'm naive but i take this purely as a safety warning and nothing to do with a sales pitch.

Take it or leave it it's your safety after all.

Could always ask them, Ray.

This reminded me of an ipod I once purchase on ebay and from Hong Kong.

It came well packaged and looked the real thing but when I charged it for the first time the thing went bang when it exploded in a puff of smoke in my living room.

I have never purchased anything from that place since.

one more item here - i once dropped my mobile, no obvious damage, placed on charge - not an issue, on my way to bed called into the kitchen at which point i found my mobile 'red hot and sweating' on the work surface! could't pick it up, charger was still cold, pushed mobile onto metal draining board to cool. Close Call!! needless to say i didn't use it again.

Has been known for CE markings to be forged. For a litle "light" reading loook up the RAPEX reports on product recalls - just google it

The report for 2010 has just been published and makes for interesting reading

Phil

many thanks. i have made our staff in our NHS trust aware.

It is quite common for a product to be CE stamped but not comply with same.
However, the list for which CE is required does not include battery chargers, except for electromagnetic compatibility (which they usually fail anyway):
Active implantable medical devices
Appliances burning gaseous fuels
Cableway installations designed to carry persons
Eco-design of energy related products
Electromagnetic compatibility
Equipment and protective systems intended for use potentially explosive atmospheres
Explosives for civil uses
Hot-water boilers
In vitro diagnostic medical devices
Lifts
Low voltage
Machinery
Measuring Instruments
Medical devices
Noise emission in the environment
Non-automatic weighing instruments
Personal protective equipment
Pressure equipment
Pyrotechnics
Radio and telecommunications terminal equipment
Recreational craft
Safety of toys
Simple pressure vessels

The list for CE marking includes 'low voltage'. These are the regulations that require the battery charger to be CE marked.

John,
As you said in your post the low voltage directive requires CE marking thus chargers must be CE marked.
As per the post by Jane above.

Simon,
I can't comment further on anything to do with Chinese Exports over and above the comments I have already made, else I am afraid that I will be moderated again.

Suffice to say, I am NOT on about the actual detail of the mark itself, as I have suggested research the issues that the electrical manufacturing industry has there are many reliable sources out there to back this up.

John,
Sorry but there is an error in your last post above, they are not high voltage at all they are low voltage, this is why they come under the low voltage directive.