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Help celebrate
National Consumer Protection Week!
NCL's 1999 Centennial
Calendar is available for only 50 cents!
Click here for details!
Click here for tips
on Holiday shopping on the Internet
FDA AND NCL ANNOUNCE
CORRECTION ON THEIR NEW FOOD AND DRUG INTERACTION BROCHURE
NCL launches campaign
to educate consumers about potential food and drug interactions
NCL releases new brochure
as part of an educational campaign to help consumers understand
the value of choosing products that use less packaging. --November
10, 1998
Read
the full report "Reduced Packaging of Consumer Goods"
White House Apparel
Industry Partnership Agreement Announced.
Read it here.
September/October issue of NCL's Bulletin.
Feature stories: Online
Auction Tips
Motor Vehicle Accidents: Top Killer of Working Youth
Phone Scam has "Crammed"
Sweepstakes out of Number One Spot
Activists Fight
Crime, Poverty and Consumer Issues.
Con Artists
Pitch Financial Dreams But Sell Nightmares. Click here for the
full report.
Sweatshop
Exhibit Opens at the Smithsonian
Debit Education
needed.
Child Labor
Advocate Remembered. To join the fight against child labor,
click here.
NCL Warns About a Threat to Working
Teens. Several documents are available, including: a
press release, facts and statistics
about teen driving and how you can send
a message to Congress.
Join the Global
March Against Child Labor. For an application, click
here or for the press release click here.
NCL Public Service Announcements
Target Overuse of Antibiotics
Senator Bingaman and Consumer
Advocates Debate Electric Utility Deregulation
at Conferece. For the conference agenda,
click here or for general information
click here.
Financial
Management Newsletter Launched
Restructuring
of the Electric Industry Conference
NCL releases three new
Spanish brochures about over-the-counter medicines.
U.S. Senate holds hearing on slamming.
Click here for NCL press release or here
for the testimony.
NCL and Alliance
to Protect Electricity Consumers Holds Congressional Briefing
and releases white paper.
Top Ten Internet Frauds Released
During Senate Hearing. Click here for the press
release or here for the testimony and
list.
Top Tips
to Avoid Internet Fraud
Internet Fraud
Video News Release Script
NCL's January/February edition
of the Bulletin
NCL Submits Comments
to the FDA Regarding Cholestin
NCL and the U.S. Department of
Labor Unveil Child Labor Stamp.
The League Unveils Survival Guide
in Chicago to Fight the Growing Problem of Phone Bill Fraud. Click
here for the press release.
Survival Guide on Slamming, Cramming,
and Other Phone Concerns. It is available in
English or Spanish. For a free
copy click here.