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Represented by Public Citizen, CSPI filed suit yesterday in federal court in DC to compel action by FDA on CSPI's citizen petition to reduce the alarming amount of salt to which U.S. consumers are exposed. The petition has been pending for 10 years, and FDA's foot-dragging dates back far longer, explains CSPI in its press […]
The FDA had gotten 125 complaints prior to the recall, reports the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Still, in an era when companies stubbornly resist potentially safe-saving recalls (think Takata air bags), it's good news that this recall was relatively expeditious.
The Wall Street Journal reports: A powerful Democratic senator has launched an inquiry into bank misconduct, asking top financial institutions to turn over information about the settlements they have entered into with federal agencies over the past decade. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, the top Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee, asked banks in a letter […]
Alison Frankel at Reuters has this article today.
If you think so, Chrysler has a deal for you: a discount in exchange for agreeing to binding arbitration. Of course, if there's a problem with the car, then you may end up out way more than $200, and the notoriously business-friendly arbitration system is unlikely to help with that. This story on Jalopnik explains. […]
Here. Non-disparagement clauses are suddenly drawing a lot of attention.
The Washington Post reports: The District would become the most generous place in the country for a worker to take time off after giving birth or to care for a dying parent under a measure supported by a majority of the D.C. Council. Under the legislation that will be introduced Tuesday, almost every part-time and […]
Yesterday, the U.S. and 11 other nations from North and South America, Asia, and the South Pacific reached agreement on the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP), a huge trade deal years in the making. What does the text say? That's still a secret — the New York Times reports that the 30 chapters of the agreement […]
…is the first part of a four-part investigative report by WAMU (Washington D.C.'s NPR affiliate) about exploitative lending practices in the Commonwealth, including how a lender transforms a loan with a capped interest rate into one without. Part I, which aired yesterday, is here. Part II aired this morning and is available here. The remainder […]