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Genetic tests indicate that 77% of fish sold as red snapper nationwide are other species illegally mislabeled as the popular entree, a new study has found. "It isn't dangerous," says Peter Gladding, a member of a consumer-awareness group, "just unfair." --USA Today
Mislabeling has spread to taking the consumer's money for things that are supposed to happen but don't. Indignantly denounced by baseball fans as unfair if not dangerous--and really annoying as well--is the Philadelphia Phillies' alleged practice of selling seats in an empty home stadium when the...
The global trail of bogus goods generally begins in workshops in the Chinese provinces of Guangdong, near Hong Kong, and Zhejiang, south of Shanghai. Both regions are centers for legitimate manufacturing of leather goods, so getting raw materials and other supplies is relatively easy. (Some luxury companies, like Coach, manufacture...
The girls are among the new faces of home economics--a school subject that did not actually vanish along with the family fondue set in the 1970s. Its practitioners now prefer to call it family and consumer sciences and seek both to encourage girls to pursue interests beyond the kitchen...
The new recommendations are likely to sharply increase the use of statin drugs. It's almost impossible to achieve such low LDL levels without the cholesterol-cutting medications, and last week consumer groups complained that the NCEP committee failed to disclose that at least six of its nine members had...