The United Kingdom’s Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has rebuked electronics supplier Russ Andrews for claiming its high-end power cables could reduce radio interference on the power line. The company says its PowerKords reduce noise in the mains supply because they are wrapped up in woven conductors. The ASA disagreed, and upheld complaints that radio-induced interference in the mains supply isn’t a perceptible problem, and that even if it was, the PowerKord couldn’t reduce it.
Read more in The Register.