Vocabulary
The Right To Be..
Organizations
Consumer Responsibilities
Miscellaneous
100
Fraud
What is a type of dishonesty and false information?
100
The right to be informed
What is to be given the correct information needed to make an informed choice?
100
FDA
What is the organization that deals with the safety of cosmetics, food, and drugs?
100
True
T or F, Stealing raises the prices for everyone?
100
No
Does it help to scream at store clerks and managers when you are unhappy with a product?
200
Guarantee
What is a promise by manufacturing usually in writing that a product is of a certain quality?
200
The Right to Safety
What is to be protected from goods and services that are hazardous to health or life?
200
USDA
What is the organization that helps insure consumer safety or farm products?
200
If dissatisfied with the product, return the item in a reasonable way.
Define being reasonable.
200
FDA
What legal association/group would you go to if you purchased a perfume that gave you a rash?
300
Implied Warranties
What is guarantees that are not written?
300
The right to choose
What is to be assured of the ability of a variety of goods and services at comparable prices?
300
FTC
What is the organization which deals with the unfair practice in competing firms?
300
Honest, resonable, informed, involved, reporting unethical practices
What are the five consumer responsibilities?
300
A malfunction with a product, but not misuse.
What does a guarantee cover?
400
Organizations of businesses engaged in the same type of business.
What does trade association mean?
400
Assurance of the right to legal correction of wrongs committed against consumers
What is the right to remedy?
400
Consumer Product Safety Commision
What is the organization whose abbreviation is CPSC?
400
Involved
When you become ______, as a consumer, agencies do their jobs and people pass laws.
400
Educating yourself and doing your part to be informed about a product.
What is being informed?
500
The fight against unfair business practiced by consumers joining together to demand fair treatment from business.
What is Consumer movement?
500
Learn about consumer rights and responsibilities as economic citizens
What is the right to consumer education?
500
Office of Consumer Affairs
What is the organization whose abbreviation is OCA?
500
Prevents other consumers from being victimized.
Reporting unethical practices does what?
500
Dealing with consumers' complaints and representing them in the best way possible.
What is the Office of Consumer Affairs (OCA)
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