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  • Consumer group finds BPA in canned foods

    Oct 5th, 2009 - seattlepi.com

    Recent tests of canned food by Consumer Reports, a consumer testing organization, found that most of the 19 brand-name foods it examined contained some bisphenol A or BPA...

  • Consumer group finds elevated BPA levels in range of foods

    Oct 5th, 2009 - Los Angeles Times

    Reporting from Washington - A consumer advocacy group's analysis of canned goods has found measurable levels of the chemical additive bisphenol A, or BPA, across a range of foods...

  • Fats cats stick it to Main Street yet again

    Oct 5th, 2009 - BostonHerald.com

    Fats cats stick it to Main Street yet againOutrage is brewing on Main Street at word that the Wall Street fat cats bailed out by taxpayers just a year ago are raking in $140 billion, even as average Americans lose jobs and struggle with soaring health-care costs...

  • Senator: Disparities in Medicare costs must end

    Oct 5th, 2009 - MiamiHerald

    Sen. Tom Harkin, leader of the powerful Senate Health Committee, said Friday that vast differences in Medicare costs -- as those that exist between the high-cost Miami and lower-cost areas -- must be ended to make for sensible healthcare reform.

  • Amercan Express president leaving company

    Oct 5th, 2009 - ajc.com

    NEW YORK — American Express Co. said Monday its president, Alfred F. Kelly Jr., will step down early next year. Kelly, 51, wants to run a company as a chief executive...

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Consumer Group from WikiPedia:

Consumer organizations are advocacy groups that seek to protect people from corporate abuse. Unsafe products, predatory lending, false advertising, astroturfing and pollution are all examples of corporate abuse.

Consumer organizations may operate via protests, campaigning or lobbying. They may engage in single-issue advocacy (e.g., the British Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA), which campaigned against keg beer and for cask ale)[citation needed] or they may set themselves up as more general consumer watchdogs, such as the Consumers' Association in the UK.

One common means of providing consumers useful information is the independent comparative survey or test of products or services, involving different manufacturers or companies (e.g., Which?, Consumer Reports, etcetera).

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