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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." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"THE PRICE OF BLIND FAITH In 1998, the President's Advisory Commission on consumer protection and Quality in the Health Care Industry provided a concise statement of the proper goal of a nation's health care system: "The purpose of the health care system is to reduce continually the burden of illness, injury, and disability, and to improve the health status and function of the people of the United States." About 70 percent of the health care in the United States is directed toward meeting this goal." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Nor did Congress or the Carter Administration take up the challenge and push through legislative reforms to advance consumer protection. And nothing much has changed over the three decades since, except that the health threats have multiplied and the cosmetics and personal care industry has grown much wealthier and considerably more powerful and skillful at sabotaging attempts to educate consumers about the safety of what they put on their bodies. The FDA's regulatory failure is further detailed in several of my books, including the The Safe Shopper's Bible." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"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." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"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." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"FDA calls itself the world's leading consumer protection agency. If the public only knew the truth, they'd demand that Congress fix the problem. Of course, Congress has no intention of doing anything that would upset the industry either. What has emerged is a lethal triangle involving FDA, the pharmaceutical industry and Congress. Pharmaceutical money funds FDA and exerts great influence with Congress. FDA allows deadly drugs onto the market and Congress pretends that nothing is the matter. Legislation needs to be introduced removing from FDA the power to determine drug safety and efficacy." - Jonathan W. Emord, The Rise of Tyranny (Get the book.)

"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." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"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." - Dr. Edward F. Group III, DC, ND, DACBN, Health Begins in the Colon (Get the book.)

"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." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"These politically appointed cronies do the bidding of the politicians in the state of New York and Washington. The consumer protection Board is nothing but a front. It has no interest in protecting consumers. It has never done anything to protect consumers. The only thing this Board does is act as a black, negative PR machine that does the bidding of the politicians. I have exposed this scam and fraud. Because I exposed the corruption, this Board started a massive negative campaign against me." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"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." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"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." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"Sustaining some form of non-instrumental science - which in practice means not routinely applying the litmus test of wealth creation to every new idea or hypothesis — is important not only for inquiry into fundamental theoretical questions but also because society needs a model of independent critical rationality for the proper conduct of democratic debate, judicial inquiry and consumer protection.37 Most of all, disinterested science is important to sustain public trust in the whole enterprise." - Jacky Law, Big Pharma: Exposing the Global Healthcare Agenda (Get the book.)

"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." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"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." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"The two people involved are Jon Sorensen, Director of Marketing and Public Relations, New York State consumer protection Board, 5 Empire State Parkway, Suite 2101, Albany, NY 12223, www.nysconsumer.gov, phone number (518) 473-9472, fax (518) 527-4496, and Teresa A. Santiago, Chairperson and Executive Director, phone number (518) 474-3514, and fax (518) 474-2474. VIRTUALLY ALL "SCIENTIFIC STUDIES" ARE FALSE, MISLEADING, AND FRAUDULENT Earlier I pointed out the fact that virtually all "scientific studies" are, at best, misleading." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.) "This is why I am suing the New York State consumer protection Board and the individual people involved personally. I will attack anyone who tries to take my First Amendment rights away from me. I will attack anyone who tries to suppress my freedom of speech. I will attack anyone who tries to slander or defame me. I know the drug companies are spending tens of millions of dollars trying to put negative PR against me and trying to get people to stop buying and reading my book. They cannot succeed. Over five million people now have purchased the book." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"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." - Craig Pepin-Donat, The Big Fat Health and Fitness Lie (Get the book.)

"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." - Bottom Line Health, Bottom Line's Health Breakthroughs 2007 (Get the book.)

"So corporate lobbyists have created an imaginary threat based on one unresolved lawsuit and are convincing sympathetic politicians to pass new laws to essentially undo an entire legal system of consumer protection. It's the Documents, Stupid Why is industry so determined to shield itself from liability if there's no real risk? Whether or not it makes sense for someone who eats too many Big Macs to sue McDonald's is really beside the point to industry." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "Tracy Westen was deputy director of the FTC's Bureau of consumer protection (under Chairman Michael Pertschuk's bold leadership) and in charge of the ill-fated proposal. At the time, the main health concern was dental cavities and the long-term impact of diets high in sugar. Chief among several agency objectives was advertising aimed at very young children, up to age six, who couldn't even understand what ads were." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.) "The low-sugar cereal scam prompted a California woman to file a lawsuit under the state's consumer protection laws against Kraft, General Mills, and Kellogg in 2005. She alleges that the companies' low-sugar cereals falsely represent "that they offer a nutritional advantage over defendants' full-sugar breakfast cereal products, when in fact, the removed sugar is replaced by other carbohydrates, thus offering no significant nutritional advantage."19 Just a few months later, a similar case was filed in Montreal against Kellogg Canada." - Michele Simon, Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back (Get the book.)

"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." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"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." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.) "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." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"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." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "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." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.) "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." - Mark Schapiro, Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products and What's at Stake for American Power (Get the book.)

"The New York consumer protection Board violated my First Amendment rights by trying to stop people from buying and reading my first book. It is my opinion and belief that members of this government agency knowingly lied in press releases and purposely misled the public, and deceived the public, about the true facts regarding me and my book. They even tried to get people in the media, including Oprah, to run negative stories about me and my book. The head of this agency was recently arrested for possession of crack cocaine. How ironic." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

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