Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 I've philosophically supported the OCA for years, and I trust the judgment of Ronnie Cummins, who I know to be a champion of grassroots consumer protection. Ronnie does not carelessly accuse a $100 million corporation of fraud, and he has worked tirelessly over the years to speak out for the interests of consumers.
I see these events as a large, powerful corporation attempting to steamroll small consumer protection organizations that are reporting the truth about Aurora's milk products. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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 The Food Allergen Labeling and consumer protection Act was signed into law in August 2004. It requires food labels to clearly state if a product contains any of the top eight food allergens: milk, eggs, fish, crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, peanuts, soybeans, and wheat. All food products manufactured in the United States after January 1, 2006, are required to have updated labels declaring the presence of any of the top eight food allergens in the product. The Food Allergen Labeling and consumer protection Act of 2004 was primarily passed to benefit individuals with food allergies. |
Paul D. Blanc, M.D.
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 Apologists for toxic pollution, lax consumer protection, and poor industrial working conditions often claim that the degradation related to these issues is a relative improvement in the Third World within the context of expanded industry and economic gain. Laissez-faire economic excuses such as these echo from an earlier time. They rang just as hollow then as they do now.
For example, in many rural Asian and Pacific sites, pesticides are a major cause of death that could be easily prevented. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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 FTC Information on Diet and Weight Loss
Provides various FTC publications on diets, weight loss and other consumer protection issues related to health and fitness.
"Given in, but not Completely"
Sally Squires
Washington Post (Tuesday, November 7, 2006) Discusses new study on cravings and restricting foods.
"How to Understand and Use the Nutrition Facts Label"
From the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition of the U.S. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 Starting in the 1970s, consumer protection laws were put in place to treat all polymer products with flame retardants. PBDEs began to be used liberally in manufactured goods as the chemical industry's insurance policy that your furniture, bedding, pajamas, and carpet—all of which are highly flammable—would not go up in a burst of flame if there happened to be an electrical short while you slept or if you should mistakenly knock over a candle while doing your crossword puzzle in bed. But PBDEs had their own downside. |
Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN
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| Despite their stated focus on "consumer protection," the Codex Commission approved seven of the most toxic chemical compounds known to man for use as pesticides in the production of foods! Collectively these chemicals are often referred to as Persistent Organic Pollutants (POP s) and are used in the production of a variety of foodstuffs including beans, dairy, poultry, cereal grains, and many fruits and vegetables. |
Charles Barber
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 Waxman, Democrat of California, added: "[The] FDA was our country's first consumer protection agency, and Americans have relied on FDA to ensure the safety of their food and drugs for one hundred years. Under the Bush administration, FDA has undermined enforcement and betrayed its consumer-first legacy. FDA must start enforcing the law and return to a culture that places public health concerns ahead of industry profits."53
In the drug industry generally, marketing dominates science. The drug companies consistently spend almost double on marketing what they do on research. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I see these events as a large, powerful corporation attempting to steamroll small consumer protection organizations that are reporting the truth about Aurora's milk products. As such, I fully support the boycott of organic milk products made by Aurora, and I urge all NewsTarget readers to send financial support to the OCA so that it may have the means to defend itself against Aurora's legal onslaught. |
Mark Schapiro
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 Those ingredient reviews never conducted by the FDA in Washington are now being conducted by the "scientific committees," overseen by the Health and consumer protection Directorate in Brussels. Their results are posted publicly on the Web.16 You can take a look yourself and check the ingredient lists on the tubes and bottles on your own bathroom shelf against the toxicity reviews conducted by the European Union. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 This raised problems for me, and indeed for our colleague Senator Harkin, since we had spent more than 2 years working with Senators Durbin, Kennedy, and Enzi to draft, pass and enact the Dietary Supplement and Nonprescription Drug consumer protection Act, Public Law 109-462. That law authorizes a new program so that reports of serious adverse events related to the use of a dietary supplement or over-the-counter drug would be reported to the Food and Drug Administration, FDA, on a priority basis.
As I said, the Durbin amendment contemplates a new adulterated food registry. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 At the same time, I also intend to use these companies as independent fundraising engines by redirecting a portion of their profits to organizations and programs supporting consumer protection, environmental protection, health freedom, animal welfare, sustainable living, and so on.
To adhere to my journalism ethics, any article published on NewsTarget that mentions a product in which I have a commercial interest will be clearly labeled as such with a "full disclosure" summary. Any editorial coverage of Better Life Goods or EcoLEDs will clearly state that I am the owner of those companies. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| IHSRA's Summary of State consumer protection Laws http://download.ihrsa.org
Health Club Services Act www.attorneygeneral.gov U.S. Attorney General's Office national fitness certifications
ACE — American Council on Exercise http://www.acefitness.org
The American Council on Exercise is the largest nonprofit fitness certification and education provider in the world. Widely recognized as "America's Authority on Fitness®," ACE® continually sets standards and protects the public against unqualified fitness professionals and unsafe or ineffective fitness products, programs and trends. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Recent development: The Food Allergen Labeling and consumer protection Act, which went into effect in January 2006, requires food manufacturers to list eight major allergens on their food labels to help people who have food allergies identify and avoid problem foods.
IS IT REALLY AN ALLERGY?
Not all reactions to food are due to allergies. Tens of millions of Americans have a food intolerance, such as a sensitivity to the lactose in milk. The most common symptom of a lactose intolerance is gastrointestinal discomfort, including diarrhea, cramping and flatulence. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's not clear what a Ron Paul presidency would do for consumer protection against Chinese-made imports, but it's crystal clear that U.S. consumers would be freer, wealthier and healthier under Ron Paul's policies than those of any other potential presidential candidate. That's why people who believe in freedom (real freedom, not the George Bush version of freedom) are wholeheartedly supporting Ron Paul, regardless of whether they're Democrats, Republicans or Libertarians.
I encourage everyone to check out Ron Paul. Do your research. |
Michael J. Panzner
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 Also deserving a mention are consumer protection Web sites, such as http://consumeraction.gov, www.lookstoogood tobetrue.com, www.nclnet.org, and http://bbb.org. At www.epls.gov, there is a list of individuals and firms that have had problems in their dealings with the U.S. government and have been excluded from receiving benefits from federal contracts.
Employing a thorough approach and following up as necessary will be essential. In a world quickly becoming unglued, a glowing past might not provide enough insight on what could happen tomorrow. |
| By 2005, for example, there were more than two million bankruptcies, up from 616,000 in 1989, though the surge was certainly abetted by a rush to file ahead of October's implementation of the extremely debtor-unfriendly Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and consumer protection Act.
Homeowners and consumers were not the only ones who leveraged up—corporate America did the same, though many businesses were also benefiting from what Bill Gross, chairman of bond fund powerhouse PIMCO, called the "finance-based economy." During 2005, gross issuance of international bonds and notes by U.S. |
Mark Schapiro
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| By contrast, in Europe the scientific committees deliver their findings to the Health and consumer protection Directorate, the EU body charged with overseeing consumer-product safety, which determines what if any action to take if a risk has been identified. The critical distinction between the U.S. |
| Talks between the two sides were tense as the Europeans faced head-on the tensions between industrial competitiveness and consumer protection. "Negotiations were a bloodbath," recalled Andrew Fasey, a Briton who frequently sat across from Donkers at those meetings, as a representative of the Industry Directorate, Europe's equivalent of the Department of Commerce.26 The more they probed, the more contentious the meetings became, and the more they discovered how central chemicals had become to the modern economy. |
| In fact, a two-hundred-page risk assessment of DEHP by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences' National Toxicology Program was forwarded to the Health and consumer protection Directorate in Brussels before it was published in the United States in November 2005, according to Dr. Gray. That assessment concluded that DEHP "may adversely affect male reproductive-tract development if exposures are sufficiently high."19 Hearings on phthalates were held in the European Parliament, where reference was made to Dr. Gray's and Dr. Swan's work. |
| Pollet, anyway, could not be expected to know that back in the United States his employer has been one of the leading backers of a nationwide campaign to weaken that critical second limb of consumer protection. Over the past decade, Procter & Gamble has been a major contributor to efforts by American corporations to limit the ability of citizens to sue companies for harm done by their products, and to limit damage awards when and if they lose.
Much of that effort has been focused on judicial races in the states, where product-liability cases are most frequently heard. |
| Glocalism" was taking a curious turn: The EU's Health and consumer protection Directorate was, in effect, displacing the FDA as the reigning authority governing cosmetic formulation. But that does not mean that Procter & Gamble, or the industry in general, agrees with the principles being established in Brussels. As I was sitting with Joris Pollet at Procter & Gamble's northern European headquarters in the fall of 2005 and heard of the company's avid compliance with the new EU rules, an entirely different story was unfolding seven thousand miles away. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Brandon, Project
Director, to Division of Advertising Practices, Bureau of consumer protection, Federal Trade
Commission, January 13, 2005. http://www.generationgreen.org/2005_01-FTC-letter.htm. -. "Splenda Marketing Campaign Seeks to Mislead, Confuse Consumers: Generation Green
Asks the FTC to Investigate," January 13, 2005. http://www.generationgreen.org/2005-01_ lead-story.htm.
Gilbert, Sue. "Splenda: Safe during Pregnancy?" http://parenting.ivillage.com/pregnancy/psafe/0„8x92,00
.html?arrivalSA=l&cobrandRef=0&arrival_freqCap=l&pba=adid=11036807. Gittleman, Ann Louise. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
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| The Food Allergen Labeling and consumer protection Act of 2004 was primarily passed to benefit individuals with food allergies. However, it is also of tremendous value to those with celiac disease, because wheat is often hidden on ingredient labels as "starch," "flavorings," "seasonings," "couscous," "farro," "farina," or "hydrolyzed vegetable protein" (Table 2). Because wheat is the most commonly used grain in the United States, by clarifying the source of ingredients and identifying "wheat," about 90% of labeling concerns are resolved for celiac and gluten-sensitive patients. |
Craig Pepin-Donat
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| The rules of the FDA are in opposition to consumer protection. Commonly, it is not until severe health problems are revealed and deaths occur on a wide scale that the public is finally notified. By then, it is too late. We have been conned into thinking prescription drugs are safe, and we have been all too willing to line up for their "cures."
Like any other business, the goal of the pharmaceutical industry is to create profit. The system is designed to approve and promote drug use. |
Jacky Law
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 Whether Europeans would want to be jolted out of their state-run healthcare systems is a deeply contested issue in the EU corridors of power, where the industry is subject to two masters, the Commissioner for Enterprise and the Commissioner for Health and consumer protection, who rarely, if ever, see eye to eye. With the former working to create a dynamic industry and the latter low-cost healthcare services, there is little middle ground between them. |
Kelly Brownell and Katherine Battle Horgen
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 Quebec's consumer protection Act
The Province of Quebec, Canada, enacted the consumer protection Act in 1978, which stated that "no person may make use of commercial advertising directed at persons under thirteen years of age." To determine whether advertisements are aimed at children, officials consider the nature and intended use of the advertised goods, the content of the advertisement, and the time and place it is shown.83
Pulled Support for Golden Marble Awards
A grassroots campaign in 2001 by Stop Commercial Exploitation of Children was mounted to encourage Scholastic, Inc. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The crafty messages sound of consumer protection, but are just the opposite. Limiting the liability of drug companies will not improve public safety. The FDA's purported position on preemption assumes that the FDA is infallible and that negligent misconduct by pharmaceutical companies should be the sole purview of FDA. Recent regulatory failures demonstrate that FDA is neither infallible nor does it have the capability of policing drug manufacturers negligent misconduct.
Want to see the real FDA at work? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Submit Your Petition Now:
Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription consumer protection Act:
Bill information (S.3546)
Bill information (H.R.6168)
The Politics and Profits in Keeping Americans Sick by Byron Richards, CCN, NHF Board Member
Bill analysis by NHF Lobbyist, Lee Bechtel
For further information concerning opposition to this bill click here:
NHF Press Release September 2006
NHF Call to Action November 2006
Federal Legislation on Consumer Health
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Click on this address to find your U.S. Senators: http://www.senate. |
Dr. Timothy Scott
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 Who Files Complaints
There are a lot of consumer protection groups in America, but most of the complaints made to the FDA's DDMAC do not come from these groups. In fact, most complaints come from the very group one might expect to be the last group to file a complaint—drug manufacturers. |
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