Each truck goes through more than 50 tests by the Consumers Union of the United States.
Don Mays is the senior director for product safety planning with the Consumers Union.
But there's a good reason not to make that move, according to Pete Sikora, one of the Consumers Union study authors.
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.
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.
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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Privacy advocates, including the Consumer Federation of California, Consumers Union and the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse, hope she's right.
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.
Findlay has helped do the same at Consumers Union.
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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.
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.
"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.
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.
Last week, Consumers Union, the advocacy arm of Consumer Reports, released a report on consumer attitudes to the overuse of antibiotics in agriculture.
The Health Department said the move was to safeguard consumers, ensure island companies met European Union standards and protect the island's reputation.
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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Reform would dramatically lower the price of food within the Union, driving some farmers out of business but saving consumers billions of euros.
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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This fall, Consumers Union and other consumer groups asked Congress to look into whether consumers are getting gouged by the practice.
But the new European Union rules are not only about helping consumers.
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.
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.
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.
The Credit Union National Association, an industry trade group, estimates that 650, 000 consumers joined credit unions in between Sept. 29 and the first week of November.
But after some initial turbulence, we expect the American Airlines-US Airways marriage will be a healthy union in the long run, with benefits for both the airline industry and consumers.
European Union officials pushed for the voluntary accord, noting that universal chargers would benefit both consumers and the environment.
The European Union met recently in an effort to agree on caps for international roaming rates (and whether consumers should automatically be moved to the new pricing structures), but -- surprise, surprise -- representatives came away empty-handed.
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For consumers, using M-Pesa beats visiting a Western Union branch on three counts, says Jones: the transaction fees are far less, there's no need to wait in huge lines, and the receiver knows instantly that the money has arrived.
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