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Consumer protection

Here are entered works on governmental and private activities that guard the consuming public against dangers to its health, safety, or economic well-being.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Commercial policy

• Consumer protection -- Great Britain
• Consumer protection -- Law and legislation
• Consumer protection -- United States
• Consumer affairs departments
• Food adulteration and inspection
• Product obsolescence
• Product safety
• Quality of products

• Consumerism
• Protection, Consumer

• The Development of Consumer Law and Policy: Bold Spirits and Timorous Souls (Hamlyn Lectures, #36; London: Stevens and Sons, 1984), by Gordon J. Borrie (PDF in the UK)

• Die Lebensmittel-Politik der Stadt Zürich im Mittelalter (doctoral dissertation in German; Ellwangen: Buchdr. der "Ipf- und Jagst-Zeitung", 1910), by Hermann Heidinger
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Politics of Sugar, by Nancy Watzman (HTML at opensecrets.org)

• The Quality of Medical Care: Information for Consumers (OTA-H-386; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crumbling Dreams: What You Must Know Before Building or Buying a New House (or Condo), by Ruth S. Martin (HTML at Lakeside Press)
• Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)

• Consumer Action Handbook (2005-2017 editions), by Federal Citizen Information Center (U.S.) (PDF files at fdlp.gov)

• The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans (1995; last edited 2005), by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (U.S.) (HTML at fda.gov)
• Perspectives on Retail Food Grading (1977), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• The Food Defect Action Levels: Levels of Natural or Unavoidable Defects in Foods That Present No Health Hazards for Humans (1995; last edited 2005), by Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition (U.S.) (HTML at fda.gov)
• Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Pesticide Residues in Food: Technologies for Detection (OTA-F-398; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Cattle Inspection (1990), by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Ensuring Safe Food: From Production to Consumption, by Institute of Medicine (U.S.) (page images and partial HTML at NAP)

• Pesticide Residues in Food: Technologies for Detection (OTA-F-398; 1988), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Open Shelf-Life Dating of Food (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Consumer Reports (partial serial archives)

• Ecology Begins at Home: Using the Power of Choice (2008 and 1989 editions), by Archie Duncanson (PDF files with commentary at alternativ.nu)

• Agriculture Information Bulletin (partial serial archives)

• Army Food and Messing: The Complete Manual of Mess Management (third edition; Harrisburg: Military Service Pub. Co., 1943) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Food Hygiene Quarterly Scientific Journal (in Persian) (partial serial archives)

• Vindicação de José James Forrester Contra as Imputações a elle Feitas no Parecer da Direcção da Associação Commercial do Porto de 15 de Março de 1845; e Observações Sobre o que no dito Parecer se Assevera Respeito ao Vinho do Porto : Com hum Post-Scriptum Sobre o Folheto Intitulado A Questão dos Vinhos do Douro, Considerada Politicamente (in Portuguese; Porto: Typ. Commercial, 1845), by Joseph James Forrester (page images at HathiTrust)

• Diseases Transmitted by Foods (A Classification and Summary) (second edition; Atlanta: U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control, Center for Professional Development and Training, 1982), by Frank L. Bryan (page images at HathiTrust)
• Environmental Contaminants in Food (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)
• Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Effects on Human Health of Subtherapeutic Use of Antimicrobials in Animal Feeds (1980), by Assembly of Life Sciences (U.S.) (page images at NAP)

• Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (1993), by National Research Council Committee on Pesticides in the Diets of Infants and Children (page images with commentary at NAP)

• The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks, by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Agriculture, Trade, and Environment: Achieving Complementary Policies (1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• Environmental Contaminants in Food (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

• The Use of Drugs in Food Animals: Benefits and Risks, by National Research Council Board on Agriculture (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Open Shelf-Life Dating of Food (1979), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poultry Inspection: The Basis for a Risk-Assessment Approach, by National Research Council Food and Nutrition Board (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Setting Safety Standards: Regulation in the Public and Private Sectors (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1990), by Ross E. Cheit (HTML at UC Press)

• Enhancing the Quality of U.S. Grain for International Trade (1989), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment (PDF files at Princeton)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• A Charter for World Trade (New York: Macmillan, c1949), by Clair Wilcox (page images at HathiTrust)
• Studies in the Theory of International Trade (originally published 1937), by Jacob Viner (HTML at econlib.org)
• Introductory Survey of Colonial Tariff Policies (Washington: GPO, 1921), by United States Tariff Commission, contrib. by Benjamin Bruce Wallace, Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck, and Jacob Viner (page images at HathiTrust)
• Maritime Neutrality to 1780: A History of the Main Principles Governing Neutrality and Belligerency to 1780 (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1936), by Carl J. Kulsrud (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (London: W. Heinemann, 1912), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Military Power to National Advantage (fourth revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1913), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Great Illusion: A Study of the Relation of Military Power in Nations to Their Economic and Social Advantage (third revised and enlarged edition; New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1911), by Norman Angell (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Customs Union Question (London: K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, and Co., ca. 1896), by W. Peart-Robinson (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Free Trade and Protection Under the International Bear Operator (London: P. S. King and Son, 1904), by Charles William Smith (page images at HathiTrust)
• Propositions Concerning Protection and Free Trade, by Willard Phillips (page images at MOA)
• Reasons for Abandoning the Theory of Free Trade, and Adopting the Principle of Protection to American Industry, by William D. Kelley (page images at MOA)
• The Tariff Protects America From Inundation During Economic storm (1932), by Republican National Committee (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Economic War and a League of Nations: Or, Why Germany Must Pay (London: P.S. King and Son, 1918), by John S. Hecht (page images here at Penn)
• Essays Designed to Elucidate the Science of Political Economy, by Horace Greeley (page images at MOA)
• Free Trade: An Address Delivered Before the Democratic Association of Brussels, Belgium, January 9, 1848 (New York: New York Labor News Co., 1921), by Karl Marx, trans. by Florence Kelley, contrib. by Friedrich Engels (page images at HathiTrust)
• Principles of the Economic Philosophy of Society, Government and Industry, by Van Buren Denslow (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Questions of the Day: Economic and Social, by William Elder (page images at MOA)
• Economic Sophisms, by Frédéric Bastiat, ed. by Arthur Goddard (HTML at econlib.org)
• The National System of Political Economy, by Friedrich List, trans. by Sampson S. Lloyd (text files at McMaster)
• Statement of Some New Principles on the Subject of Political Economy, by John Rae (HTML at McMaster; 1 MB)
• Wage-Labour and Capital (New York: International Publishers, 1933), by Karl Marx, contrib. by Friedrich Engels (page images at HathiTrust)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.