Each truck goes through more than 50 tests by the Consumers Union of the United States.
Mr. DON MAYS (Senior Director of Product Safety Planning and Technical Administration, Consumers Union): Good morning.
Don Mays is the senior director for product safety planning with the Consumers Union.
Privacy advocates, including the Consumer Federation of California, Consumers Union and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, hope she's right.
According to a study by Consumers Union, people usually can find better prices outside their Medicare prescription drug plans.
This fall, Consumers Union and other consumer groups asked Congress to look into whether consumers are getting gouged by the practice.
But there's a good reason not to make that move, according to Pete Sikora, one of the Consumers Union study authors.
Other consumer-advocacy groups, including Consumers Union and the Center for Democracy and Technology, praised the bill, as did four big technology companies: Hewlett-Packard Co.
"Certainly we avoided widespread consumer confusion by delaying the transition from February until June, " says Joel Kelsey, who tracks the digital transition for Consumers Union.
Last week, Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, released a report on consumer attitudes to the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture.
Despite its good intentions, though, recent audits of the program by Consumers Union and the Government Accountability Office have found that it may be too lenient.
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Elisa Odabashian, the director of the West Coast office of Consumers Union, said the government's testing program is not sufficient to ensure that U.S. beef is safe.
The Consumers Union, which campaigns on behalf of individual customers, wants Congress to require food producers to use an electronic tracking system like the one Federal Express employs for parcels.
The Consumers Union of the U.S. subjects each vehicle to more than 50 tests, then makes a prediction about reliability and evaluates for safety before recommending a choice to its members.
Findlay has helped do the same at Consumers Union.
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Even so, Naomi Starkman, a food media consultant to Consumers Union, said in a statement that the documented case of a BSE positive cow raised serious questions about the future safety of U.S. beef.
Simply requiring hospitals to report their infections has forced them to be more accountable to their patients, says Lisa McGiffert, who heads Consumers Union's Stop Hospital Infections campaign, which among other things has pushed for more transparency.
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Lynn Quincy, a senior policy analyst for Consumers Union, said the advocacy groups have learned that two of the coverage examples may be omitted in the final regulation, leaving only a comparison of maternity costs, at least at the outset.
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The explanation, according to Consumers Union's Joel Kelsey: The federal government, which mandated the switch from old-style analog broadcasting to digital and set the cutoff date, hasn't spent much to inform the public about how to deal with the switch.
Consumers Union, Consumer Federation and other advocacy groups asked the Federal Trade Commission in September to help prevent gift card losses by requiring retailers to put money from card sales in a separate trust fund that would be affected by a bankruptcy.
But another poll, this one by the nonprofit Consumers Union, which publishes Consumer Reports, found that three-quarters of the people it surveyed were wrong about what they have to do to get ready by the time analog signals go off the air on Feb. 17, 2009.
In coming months, this campaign, which is based at the Center for American Progress and works with partners from the Natural Resources Defense Council to Consumers Union, MoveOn.org to the Apollo Alliance, will launch new challenges to our elected leaders, but it will also point to good work that is already going on all around the country.
Sirius and XM countered that their union would benefit consumers with a stronger company with more expansive and cheaper offerings.
This enormous detriment to European Union farmers and consumers in the wake of HUS coincides with the shattering U.S. economic downturn.
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With the company's core rural consumers saturated with stores, union-pandering urban politicians making it tough to impossible to open big city locations, and overseas missteps in key markets like Germany and South Korea, there's reason to believe Wal-Mart's growth phase is near its end.
They constitute a massive wealth transfer from the majority of middle class taxpayers and consumers to a privileged class of union members who are rewarded with excessive and misallocated resources.
Mr. JEAN-MARC TRARIEUX (Agricultural Attache, European Union): Clearly, consumers should not be deceived.
The Health Department said the move was to safeguard consumers, ensure island companies met European Union standards and protect the island's reputation.
More such deals that will let electricity companies become more than passive buyers of gas are expected prior to a July 2007 European Union deadline for all European consumers to be able to select which company will be their preferred gas and electric supplier.
Take a step back and we know very well that entirely planned societies like the Soviet Union failed dismally at providing what consumers actually wanted.
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