DeWALT is recalling about 145,000 multi-functional utility bars. The utility bar can break while being used for prying, posing an injury hazard to the user. DeWALT has received at least 56 reports of the utility bars breaking, including four reports of injured users. Read more →
Do you play video games or does someone in your family play them? More than 164 million adults in the United States play video games and three-quarters of all Americans have at least one gamer in their household, according to the Entertainment Software Association. Read more →
Corporations keep breaking the law, and the Department of Justice keeps refusing to prosecute them, a report finds. The DOJ’s refusal to bring criminal prosecutions against big banks, big pharma, and other big businesses has led to a failure to deter repeat offenders. Read more →
The FTC is suing online dating service Match Group, the owner of Match.com, Tinder, OKCupid, and other dating sites, alleging that the company used fake love interest ads to trick hundreds of thousands of consumers into buying subscriptions on Match.com. Read more →
It’s officially fall and time for leaves to turn golden and the weather to become brisk. Our bloggers writers are settling in and getting ready for pumpkins, spiced lattes, and apple cider. They’re thinking and doing a variety of things and writing about what’s on their minds. Read more →
Although the food safety system in the U.S. has improved since my articles were written in 1984, the meat industry has continued to press government regulators to reduce the government role in meat inspection. Read more →
Times are changing for meat inspection in America. Traditional methods of checking meat, passed into law 1906 after Upton Sinclair’s “The Jungle” exposed deplorable conditions in Chicago meat packing plants, look expensive now. Read more →
At Washington Beef’s processing plant in Union Gap, Washington, USDA inspection procedures changed in April 1983. Three employees now check the plant for cleanliness, and they carry out some of the inspection work the inspector used to do at the plant. Read more →
The USDA Wednesday issued a final rule to overhaul pig slaughter inspection. It puts industry profits ahead of public health with higher line speeds, fewer inspectors, and no microbiological pathogen performance standards, said the Consumer Federation of America. Read more →
The CFPB announced Wednesday that it will continue to maintain its consumer complaint database while making “enhancements.” The finance industry fought to have the database discontinued, a move that consumer advocates worried the Trump administration would carry out. Read more →