I’m the host for this week’s Best of Boomer Blogs #441. Last week was National Consumer Protection Week, a big deal for me as a consumer journalist. On my blog, I wrote an article listing a wide variety of resources for consumers, so they could use the week to review... Read more →

Nestle is recalling about 267,000 pounds of chicken pizza products, produced at its Little Chute, Wisconsin, plant, and chicken lasagna products, produced at its Springville, Utah, plant that may be contaminated with small glass pieces, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service said Thursday. The chicken lasagna... Read more →

The environmental impacts of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster will last decades to centuries, according to a Greenpeace Japan report. Man-made, long-lived radioactive elements are absorbed into the living tissues of plants and animals and recycled through food webs, and carried downstream to the Pacific Ocean by typhoons, snowmelt, and... Read more →

Seventeen organizations from throughout the nation are being recognized with Climate Leadership Awards for their leadership and innovation in helping fight climate change. Winners are honored for managing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions in internal operations and throughout the supply chain, as well as integrating climate resilience into their operating... Read more →

America’s end-of-year spending and payment results are in, and consumers did worse than expected. They racked up $52.4 billion in credit card debt during the fourth quarter of 2015, according to CardHub’s “2015 Credit Card Debt Study,” released Monday. This build-up nearly equals the total amount added to America’s collective... Read more →

March 6-12 is National Consumer Protection Week. It’s a time to learn about and share information to help people make more informed buying decisions and recognize, guard against, and report scams and fraud. Here’s consumer information agencies and groups are offering this week to help you throughout the year: The... Read more →

Today is International Women’s Day. It’s a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for improving gender parity. IWD has been observed since in the early 1900’s – a time of expansion and turbulence in the industrialized... Read more →

Meryl Baer at Six Decades and Counting is the host for this week’s Best of Boomer Blogs #440. Baer tells us the new month brings promise of spring. As she’s traveling home from a cross-country trip, she’s seeing winter’s dullness fade and signs of renewal everywhere. Not me. I went... Read more →

United Pet Group is recalling about 155,000 Top Fin power filters for aquariums in the United States and about 3,300 in Canada. A conductor on the pump motor can become exposed and electrify the aquarium water, posing a shock hazard to consumers, the company and U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission... Read more →

Only two-fifths of U.S. households report good or excellent progress in “meeting their savings needs.” Other findings from the ninth annual America Saves survey are: Saving at least 5 percent of one’s income – 49 percent. Saving enough for retirement with a “desirable standard of living” – 52 percent. Automatic... Read more →