Consumer Bill of Rights
What is the right to safety?
This act requires warning labels to be put on packages of hazardous products.
What is the Cigarette Labeling and Advertising Act?
This government agency is part of the US Department of Commerce and works to develop standards of business.
What is the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)?
This organization is, according to the powerpoint, "a clearinghouse of information about local businesses."
These are the 4 ways you can contact public officials.
What is In Person, By Phone, By E-Mail, and By Letter?
The right to for consumers to be protected against fraudulent and misleading information.
This rule requires labels to be placed on products to provide instructions on how to take care of them.
What is the Care Labeling Rule?
This agency enforces laws preventing the distribution of hazardous food or medicinal products. Hank from Breaking Bad works under this agency
What is the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?
This organization is, according to the powerpoint, "comprised of representatives of the home appliance industry."
What is the Major Appliance Consumer Action Panel (MACAP)?
This federal agency regulates interstate communication by phone, wire, radio, satellite, and TV.
What is the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)?
The right for consumers to have guaranteed a variety of products available for varying prices.
What is the right to choose?
This act requires most food products to be labeled with their nutritional information and ingredients.
What is the Nutrition Labeling and Education Act?
This agency regulates unfair competition, deceptive marketing or labeling, and faulty credit reports.
What is the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)?
This organization controls the National Fraud Information Center, and was established in 1992 to combat acts of fraud.
What is the National Consumers League (NCL)?
This department of the United States deals in food supply.
What is the US Department of Agriculture (USDA)?
The right for consumers' complaints and interests to be listened to and taken into account by producers.
This act allows the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall hazardous toys from the market.
What is the Toy Safety Act?
This agency regulates illegal use of mail, including identity theft and dangerous items.
What is the United States Postal Inspection Service (USPIS)?
What is the Federal Citizen Information Center (FCIC)?
This act ensures the privacy of patients' health information.
What is the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act?
The right to compensation for faulty products or poor businesses.
This act protects the privacy of student education records.
What is the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)?
This agency is under the US Department of Transportation, and it regulates air traffic and personnel.
What is the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)?
This organization, according to the powerpoint, "has the largest consumer testing facility in the world and publishes test results and product ratings."
What is the Consumers Union?
This act requires the adequate supply and distribution of drugs and medicines by their generic names.
What is the Generic Drug Act?