{"id":4148,"date":"2018-11-08T09:52:16","date_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/dyson-wins-ruling-over-vacuum-cleaner-tests\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T09:52:16","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T09:52:16","slug":"dyson-wins-ruling-over-vacuum-cleaner-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/dyson-wins-ruling-over-vacuum-cleaner-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Dyson wins ruling over vacuum cleaner tests"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div property=\"articleBody\">\n<figure class=\"media-landscape no-caption full-width lead\"><span class=\"image-and-copyright-container\"><\/p>\n<p>                <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"js-image-replace\" alt=\"Dyson with vacuum\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/news\/320\/cpsprodpb\/15217\/production\/_96015568_dyson.jpg\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\"\/><span class=\"off-screen\">Image copyright<\/span><br \/>\n                 <span class=\"story-image-copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/p>\n<p>            <\/span><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">Dyson, the household appliance maker, has won a legal battle over energy labelling laws for its vacuum cleaners in the European courts.<\/p>\n<p>The UK engineering firm claimed tests to assess the efficiency of vacuum cleaners favoured rivals&#8217; models.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson said the system failed to reflect actual conditions of use.<\/p>\n<p>The company, which has been pursuing legal action over the issue since 2015, said the ruling was &#8220;a win for consumers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s founder, Sir James Dyson, argued that testing vacuum cleaners when they were empty of dust made machines that used disposable bags appear more efficient.<\/p>\n<p>He claimed that meant the tests misled &#8220;consumers on the real environmental impact of the machine they are buying&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Dyson&#8217;s vacuum cleaners are &#8220;bagless&#8221;. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/business-46135645\">Source<\/a> by <a href=\"\">[author_name]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image copyright Getty Images Dyson, the household appliance maker, has won a legal battle over energy labelling laws for its vacuum cleaners in the European courts. The UK engineering firm claimed tests to assess the efficiency of vacuum cleaners favoured rivals&#8217; models. Dyson said the system failed to reflect actual conditions of use. The company, &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4149,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4148"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4148\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.styledeals.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}