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Consumer Group Finds Elevated BPA Levels In Range Of Foods

latimes.com | Andrew Zajac | Posted 11.04.2009 | Living

Read More: FDA and BPA Baby Bottles, Health. BPA. Epoxy Resin, Plastic Hardener, Children, Food, Fda, Food and Drug Administration, Consumer Union, Consumer Reports, Living News

A consumer advocacy group's analysis of canned goods has found measurable levels of the chemical additive bisphenol A, or BPA, across a range of foods...

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Tests Find Wide Range of Bisphenol A in Canned Soups, Juice, and More

Naomi Starkman | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Bpa, Consumers Union, Fda, Canned Foods, Consumer Reports, Green News
Naomi Starkman

Consumer Reports' latest tests of canned foods, including soups, juice, tuna, and green beans, have found that almost all of the 19 name-brand foods tested contain measurable levels of Bisphenol A (BPA).

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Consumer Reports: What Is Net Neutrality?

Craig Newmark | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology

Read More: John McCain, Consumers Union, Consumer Reports, Net Neutrality, Technology News
Craig Newmark

Even Senator John McCain was for Net Neutrality, before he was against it.

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Getting Serious Credit Card Consumer Protection

Craig Newmark | Posted 11.01.2009 | Business

Read More: Credit-Card-Profits, Consumer Reports, Business News
Craig Newmark

Consumer Reports is helping get reasonable consumer protection for us all and I'd appreciate it you took a look at CreditCardReform.org.

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Money Doesn't Buy Reliability

Scott Burgess | Posted 10.28.2009 | Business

Read More: Cars, Reliability, Auto Industry, Consumer Reports, Toyota Camry, European Car Industry, Chrysler, Honda Accord, Gm, Luxury Cars, Car Reliability, Ford, American Auto Industry, Best Car Models, Business News
Scott Burgess

An interesting tidbit came out of a recent Consumer Reports study: The more money a consumer spends on a car does not translate into a more reliable vehicle.

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Consumer Reports Floored By High-Tech Brakes After Toyota Recall

Scott Burgess | Posted 10.19.2009 | Business

Read More: Toy Recalls, Toyota, Safety-Problems-Floor-Mats, Consumer Reports, Business News
Scott Burgess

The recent recall by Toyota of 3.8 million of vehicles has a lot of people scratching their heads; Floor mats, really?

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Consumerist/Ctr for Media & Democracy Protect the US Against Front Groups

Craig Newmark | Posted 10.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Health Care Reform, Swiftboating, Front Groups, Consumer Reports, Consumerist, Astroturf, Politics News
Craig Newmark

"Front groups," sometimes called "swiftboaters," are people paid by shady politicians or corporate executives to deceive citizens.

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This Week in Magazines: The 10 Best Cities for Chablis-Loving Kayakers, New Rules for Cannibals

James Warren | Posted 09.16.2009 | Media

Read More: Cannibalism, The New Yorker, Time, Outside, Slate, Consumer Reports, Magazines, Media News
James Warren

America's last honest institution, Consumer Reports, decides to check out perhaps the greatest invention in modern history since liquid Prell, namely GPS systems.

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Your Health Insurance Plan Is Worse Than You Think: Simon Johnson And James Kwak

washingtonpost.com | Simon Johnson and James Kwak | Posted 09.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Kaufman Center, James Kwak, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Simon Johnson, Consumer Reports, Business News

If we fail to reform our health care system this year, a major reason will be that a majority of Americans are satisfied with their health coverage an...

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Consumer Reports Asks Readers For Input On Cover Decisions

New York Times | BRIAN STELTER | Posted 07.09.2009 | Media

Read More: Consumer Reports, Magazines, Media News

Consumer Reports prides itself on unbiased reviews. But readers may at least have a say in the color of the magazine's logo. Last week, the publica...

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This Week in Magazines: Bill Clinton Has Really Changed, Right?

James Warren | Posted 07.01.2009 | Media

Read More: Evangeline Lilly, Sports Illustrated, Ursula Burns, Vanity Fair, Bill Clinton, New York Times Magazine, Women's Health, Business Week, Flight 1549, Barack Obama, Consumer Reports, Media News
James Warren

A terrific reporter obviously labored hard to get beneath the well-practiced, media-shy and often disingenuous Clinton surface.

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Consumer Confidence Soars In May

AP | ANNE D'INNOCENZIO | Posted 06.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Thomson Reuters, Consumer Confidence, Retail Sales, Consumers, Conference Board, Consumer Spending, Consumer Reports, Recession, Business News

NEW YORK — Even with unemployment still rising and home prices still slumping, Americans are getting their confidence back in the economy. A wide...

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5 Secrets Conventional Cleaning Product Manufacturers Don't Want You to Know

Christopher Gavigan | Posted 05.30.2009 | Green

Read More: Households, Cleaning Products, Natural, Exposure to Chemicals, Cpsc, Antibacterials, Truth in Labeling, Consumer Reports, Toxic Chemicals, Environmentally Friendly, Nontoxic, Triclosan, Seventh Generation, Surfactant, Green Cleaning Products, Cleaning, Activeion, Ecover, Dapple, Green News
Christopher Gavigan

These products were meant for use all over the house. If they were as toxic as their labels implied, why were we using them where we ate, bathed, slept and played?

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This Week in Magazines: A Big Shot Journalist Vents at Being Lied to 20 Years Ago

James Warren | Posted 04.08.2009 | Media

Read More: Newsweek, Sports Illustrated, This Week in Magazines, Time Magazine, Consumer Reports, Media News
James Warren

Journalists crave access, even if it often means access to get lied to, especially in Washington. But deceit plays out across the media spectrum.

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Consumer Reports: GM, Chrysler Least Reliable Cars, Ford Fares Better

usatoday.com | Chris Woodyard | Posted 03.30.2009 | Business

Read More: Consumer Reports Ford, General Motors Chrysler, Big Three Automakers, Chrysler, General Motors, Detroit Three, Consumer Reports Cars, Consumer Reports Gm, Consumer Reports Chrysler, Consumer Reports, Automakers, Cars, Detroit-Michigan, Business News

Chrysler and General Motors (GM) took the bottom two spots, respectively, in Consumer Reports magazine's new automaker for reliability, even as the pa...

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Five Scariest Detroit Auto Show Moments -- 2009

Steve Parker | Posted 02.15.2009 | Business

Read More: Lithium-Ion Battery, Chevy Volt, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Tesla Motors, Chengfeng, Chrysler, Mercedes-Benz ML320 Bluetec, Cars, Detroit Auto Show, Consumer Reports, Geely, Dodge Ram, Motor Trend, BYD Auto, Prius Plug-in Hybrid, Mini, Ford Flex, North American Car and Truck of the Year, Smart Electric, Chery, Bob Nardelli, Swatch Watch, Gm, Ford F-150, Penske Automotive Group, Cnbc, Chinese Cars, Ford, Detroit Three, Detroit Automakers, BMW Group, North American International Auto Show, Tokyo Motor Show, Roger Penske, Mini E, Warren Buffett, Daimler, Brilliance, Nactoy, Volkswagen Jetta Diesel, Hyundai Genesis, Business News
Steve Parker

America is the world's biggest automotive market, yet offers very little in the way of independent analysis and car, truck or motorcycle testing.

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Gawker Media Sells Consumerist.com To Consumer Union

New York Times | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 01.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Gawker Media, Gawker, Consumerist, Consumer Reports, Media News

Consumers Union, the nonprofit publisher of Consumer Reports magazine, planned to announce on Wednesday that it had acquired Consumerist.com, a popula...

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How (Not) to Succeed in Business

Peter Clothier | Posted 12.22.2008 | Business

Read More: Business, Bailout, Corporations, Auto Industry, Telephone Companies, Cable Companies, Consumer Reports, Business News
Peter Clothier

Okay, call me an easy mark. I should have picked up on this long ago. I didn't. But am I alone in thinking that I was somehow cheated?

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Green Edge 4: Organic Fruit Worth the Premium

John Tepper Marlin | Posted 08.08.2008 | Green

Read More: Consumer Reports, Cafe Concerto, National Sustainable Agriculture Service, Organic World Congress, Florida Organic Group, Organic Fruit, Green Living, Environmental Working Group, Francescana, Marty Mesh, Green News
John Tepper Marlin

Consumer Reports singles out fruit that is worth a marketplace premium: apples, cherries, imported grapes, nectarines, peaches, pears, raspberries and strawberries -- or all fruit for baby food.

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