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  The Philatelic Bureau of the Department of Posts of Sri Lanka yesterday issued two new postage stamps in the denominations of Rs. 15.00 and Rs. 45.00 and a souvenir sheet to mark the 50th anniversary of the establishment of Sri Lanka – Singapore diplomatic relations. The joint stamp release ceremony took place at the Foreign Ministry in Colombo with the participation of the Foreign Minister Dinesh Gunawardena and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Singapore Dr. Vivian Balakrishnan, joining ...

07/20/2021 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 07/19/2021 17:22 Ministers seek to stamp out rip-offs with new consumer protections Government will protect consumers hard-earned cash and stamp out exploitation of online consumers new powers for the competition regulator will improve enforcement and tackle subscription traps and fake reviews so people can spend with confidence Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng: The UKs economic recovery relies on the strength of our markets and consumers f...

Government will protect consumers’ hard-earned cash and stamp out exploitation of online consumers new powers for the competition regulator will improve enforcement and tackle subscription traps and fake reviews so people can spend with confidence Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng: The UK’s economic recovery relies on the strength of our markets and consumers’ faith in them An arsenal of planned reforms to boost competition and shield the public from rip-offs as the UK builds back fairer ...

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Check out whats clicking on FoxBusiness.com. President Joe Biden nominated Richard Trumka Jr., a House aide and the son of AFL-CIO president Richard Trumka, to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) on Tuesday.  Trumka Jr. has worked as general counsel and staff director for the House Oversight and Reforms subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy since March 2019. He was an assistant attorney general in Marylands Consumer Protection Division for 3 1/2 years before that. The subcomm...

Washington D.C. (June 17, 2021)—On Wednesday, June 23, 2021 at 10:00 a.m. ET, Rep. Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Economic and Consumer Policy, will hold a hybrid hearing entitled “An Epidemic Continues: Youth Vaping in America.” This hearing will examine the scope of the youth vaping epidemic and the role of the federal government in addressing youth

Tear gas is disallowed in war, the lawmakers say, but police regularly use it on the people they’re supposed to protect.

At least 86 lawsuits have now been filed against firms named in the recent Congressional Subcommittee report on heavy metals in baby food including Beech-Nut Nutrition, which has just announced plans to exit the infant rice cereal category citing difficulties in sourcing rice flour that is consistently below FDA guidance levels for inorganic arsenic.

Baby food company Beech-Nut Nutrition Co.

Beech-Nut voluntarily recalled an infant rice cereal Tuesday because it exceeds a predetermined FDA limit of 100 parts per billion of arsenic and announced it would no longer sell rice cereal for babies.