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For that application it is better to get officially imported ones (eg. CE-marked in Europe), where at least the importer is vouching that the design meets minimum safety requirements.

See http://www.righto.com/2012/10/a-dozen-usb-chargers-in-lab-ap... for some horror stories about crap USB chargers.

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Mine[0] has CE on the back, but this is China, they print anything and everything on the back...

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10632118

I guess there's a market for importing Chinese USB chargers from Europe into China then ;)

But yep, the CE mark is related to the importing paperwork so only signifies something inside EU, would be interesting to know if it's a positive or negative quality signal inside China...

CE stands for Chinese Engineering :D

Close.. I believe it actually is 'Chinese Export' when you ask but the goal is the same, to imply certification (o;

CE is worthless, what you want is a proper certification such as GS, TUV, UL or CCC (possibly others).

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