The federal government collects information about business and products so that everyone can see the impact of business and products on people. We thought we’d fill you in. Here, in Part 2, is our second favorite government database. Name: Recalls and product safety news URL: http://www.cpsc.gov/businfo/reg1.html. What it collects:…
The Soda that Started Consumer Protection
March 3, 2011
Law usually emerges out of a simple, painful, human story – that is what makes law so compelling. Take the birth of consumer protections. It all started in 1928, when a woman named May Donoghue and a friend sat down at the Wellmeadow Café in Paisely, Scotland. Even though…