• Since that time, he has advanced initiatives in environmental protection, public safety, civil rights and consumer affairs.

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  • If they are still not happy, they should get in contact with the director of consumer affairs.

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  • The consumer affairs programme Watchdog has its origins in BBC's Nationwide programme of more than two decades ago.

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  • Only last month, the Competition and Consumer Affairs Minister Kim Howells underlined that the UN had given permission.

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  • French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said the meat had left Romania clearly and correctly labelled as horse.

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  • France's consumer affairs minister, Benoit Hamon, has ordered an immediate investigation, and results will be available by midweek.

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  • Dr Kim Howells, Consumer Affairs Minister at the DTI, said it was important disabled people's needs were taken into account.

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  • Spanghero should have known that the meat it labeled as beef was actually horse, French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon has said.

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  • Watchdog moved to BBC morning television in 1986 and has gone on to become the longest running consumer affairs programme on British television.

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  • The OFT, run by director general John Bridgeman, is a non-ministerial, independent government department which is divided into competition policy and consumer affairs.

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  • On Friday, Germany's consumer affairs ministry announced that it had now found traces of horse DNA in 67 of 830 food products tested.

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  • Kim Howells is appointed consumer affairs minister in place of Nigel Griffiths, who is sacked following a public row with his senior civil servants.

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  • Christine Farnish will be known to some of you through her current role, which is as Director of Consumer Affairs at the Financial Services Authority.

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  • French Consumer Affairs Minister Benoit Hamon said Thursday that the French firm Spanghero should have known that the meat it labeled as beef was actually horse.

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  • Consumer groups have expressed concern that Sir John's lack of experience in consumer affairs and food policy could hinder the agency's effectiveness in standing up for the public.

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  • Russ Heimerich, a spokesman for California's Department of Consumer Affairs, said the percentage of Oikos graduates who passed standardized nursing exams was well below the 65% required by the state.

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  • Florida investigators have been examining the foundation amid accusations of creating misleading representations in a direct mail campaign authored by Quadriga, according to the state Department of Agriculture and Consumer Affairs.

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  • He was also a minister of state at the Department of Trade and Industry during the 1990s and his various junior ministerial jobs covered tourism, Scotland, the environment, and consumer affairs.

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  • While would-be merchants would like to see more options, the City Council has no plans to take up the issue, said City Councilman Daniel Garodnick, chairman of the council's Consumer Affairs Committee.

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  • In early May, stocks of Gree and DeNA fell more than 20% after the nation's Consumer Affairs Agency said it was considering whether a sales method called "complete gacha" violates the law.

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  • On Tuesday, Ian McCartney, the Minister for Consumer Affairs, described the situation as a "national emergency" and announced that the Farepak Response Fund was being established with help from York-based charity Family Fund.

    BBC: Farepak customers have been fighting to win compensation

  • Consumer affairs minister Dr Kim Howells, the MP for Pontypridd, said they were "all a bit bonkers", while his boss, Trade and Industry Secretary Stephen Byers, has already appeared to chide the countess.

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  • The city's Department of Consumer Affairs began stepping up enforcement of the law last year, when it issued 580 gender-pricing violations to businesses, more than double the 212 doled out the year before.

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  • Dole's government resume is extensive and includes professional stints at the Nixon White House as a deputy assistant for consumer affairs, the Federal Trade Commission, and the now-defunct Department of Health, Education and Welfare.

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  • Between fiscal years 2010 and 2012, the city's Department of Consumer Affairs increased inspections by 66%, increased violations issued by 153%, and increased revenue from fines by 102%, according to Mr. de Blasio's report.

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  • In 2005, a New Jersey law took effect requiring health care professionals or companies to notify the state Division of Consumer Affairs of concerns or misconduct of health care workers who could endanger patients.

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  • The survey by the city's Department of Consumer Affairs looked at the Chinese, Ecuadorian and Mexican communities and also found that barriers to having accounts included having to maintain minimum balances as well as confusion over what documentation would be needed to open an account.

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  • "These intermediaries help buyers and sellers contact each other at a low cost, but do not engage in other estate agent activities, so it is unfair to expect them to go out and check all the property details of all the sellers on their websites, " said the new consumer affairs minister, Jo Swinson.

    BBC: Private home sales to be easier, says government

  • On Wednesday the state's Consumer Affairs Minister, Johannes Remmel, said that "after analysing the data we have learned that through a middleman in Luxembourg, a significant amount of goods has been shipped to Germany and North Rhine-Westphalia, and those goods are suspected, and I repeat only suspected, to have not been properly labelled".

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  • Peddling is allowed on sidewalks and other public places with a general vendor license, though the city limits the number available to 853 at a time, and the waiting list for new ones is closed. (An exception is made for veterans.) But selling goods from a parked vehicle is prohibited, according to the Department of Consumer Affairs.

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