Consumer Safety Officers, more commonly called Investigators, are the individuals who inspect production and warehousing facilities, investigate complaints, illnesses, or outbreaks, and review documentation in the case of medical devices, drugs, biological products, and other items where it may be difficult to conduct a physical examination or take a physical sample of the product.

In 2003, Consumer Reports, based on complaints about 2002 model new cars that in general are less than one year usage, ranked Hyundai's reliability tied with Honda's ; however, J. D.

The Financial Services Consumer Panel will not address individual consumer complaints.

Mr. Chan Wing-Kai, the head of the Consumer Complaints & Advice Council, said, " The percentage of complaints made by individual visitors is 9. 3 %, which is relatively low.

Senate Bill 129 created the Office of Privacy Protection within the Department of Consumer Affairs to inform the public of potential options for protecting their privacy, receive complaints concerning persons unlawfully using others ' personal information, and to help prosecute identity theft and other privacy related crimes.

Consumer complaints are usually directed to these offices and investigated from there.

Consumer demand for innovative, expensive, and increasingly complex electronically-controlled and computerized appliances, coupled with higher labor costs and complaints over Maytag product quality and service, influenced a decline in Maytag sales and profit margins.

Adherence to the Code is overseen by the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada ( FCAC ), which investigates consumer complaints.

These segments included Dateline: Survivor, where a person talks about their near death experience and rescue ; Dateline Timeline, where a popular product, person, and music single are played and viewers are invited to guess what year it appeared in ; State of the Art, explaining how something was technically accomplished in a movie ; Consumer Alert, where common consumer complaints or issues, such as food safety, are investigated, Dateline Hidden Camera Investigation, a story using hidden cameras to focus on an issue of public concern, and Newsmakers, light interviews of major figures in politics, entertainment, and business, as well as regular people in the news.

The three major Australian tobacco manufacturers agreed to stop using these terms, after investigation of complaints of misleading and deceptive terms were made to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission ( ACCC ) in 2005.

After many complaints from the community and event promoters the DFT ( Department of Fair Trading ) and CCAAC ( Commonwealth Consumer Affairs Advisory Council ) conducted a survey discussing scalping issues and released The Ticket Scalping Issue Paper for NSW.

Between 1996 and 1999, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection received 50 complaints regarding Kirby dealers, and concluded from its investigation that Kirby, through its distributors, engaged in a " statewide pattern of trade practices " violation of state consumer-protection laws.

Legends Owners United has filed complaints with the Federal Trade Commission, the New Jersey Division of Consumer Affairs and the state Real Estate Commission.

Other problems have also surfaced with this shift to web based and email marketing, as witnessed by complaints from consumers on such sites as Pissed Consumer and Rip off report. com.

The Bureau of Consumer Relations will solicit feedback from customers, while maintaining its role as a mediator of complaints.

Consumer associations can file claims on behalf of groups of consumers to obtain judicial orders against corporations that cause injury or damage to consumers.

In October 2001 a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA.

This now-discontinued ISR practice was informally labeled a scam and a fraud, and the New York City Department of Consumer Affairs issued a violation against ISR for engaging in a deceptive trade practice.

Wyden voted against the Class Action Fairness Act of 2005, a Republican effort to restrict the number of class actions suits against businesses and the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005, a bipartisan change in bankruptcy law designed to make it more difficult to file for bankruptcy and to make those in bankruptcy pay more of their debts.

The Bureau of Consumer Protection ’ s mandate is to protect consumers against unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce.

Consumer prices doubled between May and August, alone, and though sharp, mandatory wage hikes had been negotiated between the government, labor and employers, the resulting shock ( known as the Rodrigazo ) ignited protest across Argentina, including a two-day general strike by the CGT ( the first ever against a Peronist administration ).

Abraham authored the " H1B Visa in Global and National Commerce Act ", establishing a federal framework for on-line contracts and signatures ; the " Government Paperwork Elimination Act ", and the " Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act ", which protects Internet domain names for businesses and persons against copyright and trademark infringements.

Consumer advocacy groups argue that this discrimination against consumers — the charging of higher prices on the same object simply because of where they happen to live — is unjust and anti-competitive.

A class action suit was filed against them for violation of the Delaware Consumer Fraud Act in September 1998.

After all ten rounds, the photographer with the highest score in the league table is crowned the Amateur Photographer Of the Year and wins £ 5, 000 worth of Canon vouchers to be remdeamed against the purchase of personal photographic goods ( defined as Canon Consumer Imaging Products ).

The committee approved a competing, less comprehensive bill, the Consumer Access to Information Act, which dealt only with " time sensitive " information, and would have instructed the Federal Trade Commission to take action against unfair trade practices.

Consumer outcry against software incompatibility has prompted portable music player manufacturers such as Apple and Creative to support multiple formats.

The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warns against practicing it with babies because of risk of suffocation or strangulation, but many pediatricians, breast-feeding advocates, and others have criticized this recommendation.

Chandler has voted in favor of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, against the Dodd – Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the Troubled Asset Relief Program, against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, against Cut, Cap and Balance Act and for funding the State Children's Health Insurance Program.

In 2009, the state of New Jersey filed a lawsuit against the company alleging violation of their Consumer Fraud Act surrounding events with a Bruce Springsteen concert, where tickets were allegedly offered for sale on their website which did not actually exist.

On 21 December 2007 Telekomunikacja Polska was fined PLN 75 million ( approximately EUR 20. 7 million ) by the Polish Office for Competition and Consumer Protection, for discriminating against its competitors on the Internet services market.

It was created in 1972 through the Consumer Product Safety Act to protect " against unreasonable risks of injuries associated with consumer products.

However, a challenge against some US stem cell patents is being litigated by two non-profit organizations: The Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights and Public Patent Foundation along with molecular biologist Jeanne Loring of the Burnham Institute.

In January, 2004, the State of Hawaii's Office of Consumer Protection won a lawsuit against AWU ; the judgment enjoined AWU from " Providing any post-secondary instructional programs or courses leading to a degree " or " Acting as or holding themselves out as a ' college ', ' academy ', ' institute ', ' institution ', ' university ' or anything similar thereto.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission took no action against the companies.

Due to the below average performance and potential health risks, Consumer Reports has advised against using ozone producing air purifiers.

Consumer demand surveys are interview based statistical surveys that measure the percentage of households that will buy a car, white goods, PCs, TVs, home furnishings, kitchenware or toys in, for example, the next three-month period.

Consumer confidence and sentiment surveys measure how people are doing financially, how they look at the overall economy of the country or business conditions in the country, if they think that the government is doing a good or a poor job and if people think that it is a good or a bad time to buy a car or to buy or sell a house.

The car was prone to rollovers, according to a 2001 Consumer Reports review.

Norwegian car manufacturers are forbidden from claiming that their automobiles are environmentally friendly, since cars " can't be environmentally beneficial ", as a spokesperson for the country's Consumer Ombudsman explains.

In 1982, Pierre Heymann who was working on the comparative testing for automobiles at the French National Consumer Institute, made his design for an ideal car and proposed it to Renault.

The Auto Editors of Consumer Guide said, " In its dozen years on the market, Chevette had earned a reputation for being a simple, straightforward car offering high fuel economy and steadfast reliability.

Consumer Reports declared the 2002 BMW E39 the best car they had ever reviewed.

The M35x won Consumer Reports top luxury car pick for 2006, taking the top spot from the 2005 Lexus LS 430.

Consumer acceptance of large SUVs approaching 80 inches in width shows interest remains in vehicles capable of three-across seating with reasonable comfort, a strong point of a true full-size car.

The car won Consumer Digest's Automotive Best Buy Award in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010.

* Consumer device integration, a term that describes the integration of mobile devices into car infotainment systems

** Consumer electronics such as CD / DVD player, home theatre, MP3, TV, VCR, joystick, camera, car CD / DVD, MD player, game player & controller