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October 31, 2007
Around the consumer blogs:
Wal-Mart Watch has a post by Alex Goldschmidt that the CPSC has charged that Wal-Mart withheld recall information (score one for the CPSC!). Meanwhile, over at Consumer Law and Policy blog, Steve Gardner's post The Doctrine of Unintended Consequences finds that the fast food industry should have been more careful about what it wished for when it sued to overturn New York City's food menu labeling law: The court thus provided a road map for cities and states to draft menu labeling laws that don't conflict with federal law. In other words, the decision gave cities and states a green light to make nutrition information mandatory at restaurants. Also at CL&P, Brian Wolfman links to Consumers Union's latest home lead test kit report. It's an advance from the next Consumer Reports Magazine. And at MSNBC reporter Bob Sullivan's popular Red Tape Chronicles, find out about one father's nightmare with his daughter's $10,000 premium text message phone bill. That story includes analysis by consumer expert Edgar Dworsky, who blogs over at ConsumerWorld.
Meanwhile, over at Credit Slips, the blog about bankruptcy and consumer credit issues, Katie Porter has a withering critique -- Reporting on the "Mortgage Meltdown" -- of a recent Wall Street Journal article and an editorial that both get it wrong on bankruptcy facts. Bookmark these consumer blogs.
Posted by Ed Mierzwinski at October 31, 2007 06:14 AM
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