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Watch out for serious safety issues for goods shipped directly to consumers from overseas

There’s a new trend in product safety that American consumers need to know about. E-commerce has radically changed how Americans shop. With so many products coming from outside the United States, particularly products imported from China, the number of safety warnings is increasing. Under a current exemption, goods valued under... Read more →


Consider stocking up on items before Trump’s tariffs hit hard

Some consumers have been stock piling food and other items for months in anticipation of prices going up due to Trump’s tariffs and other policies. With 25 percent tariffs on Canada and Mexico and 10 percent on China, it will begin Saturday. When I went grocery shopping this week, I... Read more →


More than 340,000 digital kitchen scales are being recalled over risk of kids ingesting battery

Well, at least the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is still doing recalls under the second Trump administration. Greater Goods is recalling about 349,500 kitchen scales because the scale’s lithium coin battery can be easily accessed by children, and the spare coin battery provided with it isn’t in child resistant... Read more →


Check out these 25 books about food that answer why

For winter reading, Dani Nierenberg, president of Food Tank, a think tank on food, offers another great reading list, this one on food books that answer the question why. Why bread, which cost a third of household expenditures in Europe 300 years ago, now costs less than 1 percent. Why... Read more →


It’s Inauguration Day: The foxes are in the henhouse

It’s a sad day for the United States of America. We know the destruction Donald Trump caused during his first term as president, but his second term is going to be worse. Trump only cares about making money for himself and his wealthy friends. Now, billionaires are ingratiating themselves to... Read more →


FDA bans use of Red dye No. 3 in food and drugs

More than 30 years after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration determined that the synthetic food dye Red No. 3 causes cancer, the agency is revoking the use of the dye in food and ingested drugs in response to a 2022 petition. The petition, filed by the Center for Science... Read more →


Top 10 articles on my blog during 2024

It’s been quite a year, 2024. So much has been happening in consumer and personal finance. I’ve been writing my blog since 2008, with 5,200 articles posted and nearly 1 million page views. Thank you for your readership during 2024. Here are the top articles on my blog that people... Read more →


Yoto reannounces recall of more than 250,000 mini speakers with replacement battery kits available

Yoto is reannouncing a recall of 251,165 Yoto Mini Speakers for children due to burn and fire risks. The speaker’s lithium-ion battery can overheat and catch fire, the U.S. Consumer Product Commission said in a statement. Yoto has received nine reports from U.S. consumers and three from a U.K. consumer... Read more →


Top tips for returning your holiday gifts

Today’s the day. Tomorrow, too. Hopefully, you followed my advice and kept your receipts for your holiday purchases. It’s likely that you or someone in your family will need to return of a holiday gift soon. A survey at the end of the 2023 holiday season found that nearly one... Read more →


FDA updates definition of ‘healthy food’

Packaged foods in the U.S. will be required to follow new rules in order to call themselves “healthy,” according to changes finalized Thursday by the Food and Drug Administration. The “healthy” claim has been updated to help consumers find foods that are basic to a healthy dietary pattern and could... Read more →