News Releases for July 1997

July 31, 1997

• FTC Outlines Steps for Commission Action on Consumer Privacy Issues in Letter to Congress

July 30, 1997

• Schnucks to Pay $3 Million, Divest Two Additional Stores to Settle FTC Charges of Running Down Supermarkets Before Divesting

July 29, 1997

• FTC Will Move to Block Merger of Hospital Equipment Rental Firms

• Claims that Herbal Ecstacy is Absolutely Safe and Will Not Cause Side Effects Are False, FTC Says

• FYI: Announced Actions for July 29, 1997

July 25, 1997

• FYI: Announced Action for July 25, 1997

July 24, 1997

• FTC Chairman Robert Pitofsky Testifies before Senate Subcommittee on Mergers and Acquisitions in the Defense Industry

• Seattle-Based Defendants To Pay $288,000 To Settle FTC Charges over Phony Alaskan Fishing Jobs, Scholarship Claims

July 23, 1997

• FTC/State "Project Mousetrap" Snares Invention Promotion Industry
  • Opening Statement of Jodie Bernstein at Press Conference

• Quaker State Subsidiaries Settle FTC Charges Against Slick 50

• Camera Vending Machine Business Scheme Defendants Banned from Selling Franchises under FTC Settlements

July 21. 1997

• For Planning Purpose Only: "Say Cheese!" FTC To Announce "Project Mousetrap"

• Media Advisory: FTC Announces "Project Deter," a Public/Private Partnership To Focus on Consumer Protection Issues Facing People Moving from Welfare to Work

July 18, 1997

• FYI: Announced Actions For July 18, 1997

July 17, 1997

• Federal/State Report: "Milk: Does It Measure Up?" Finds Widespread "Short-Filling" of Milk and Other Products

• FTC Announces Results of Inspection of New Jersey Funeral Homes For Compliance With Consumer Protection Law

July 16, 1997

• FTC Staff Sets Forth Principles For Online Information Collection From Children

July 15, 1997

• FYI: Tar & Nicotine Report - 1994

• Federal, State, Local Law Enforcers Target Bogus Telemarketers

• "Peach Sweep" -- Statement by Anthony Di Resta, Director, Atlanta Regional Office, FTC

• FYI: Announced Actions for July 15, 1997

July 10, 1997

• Statement of FTC Consumer Protection Director on R.J. Reynold's Decision To Replace the Joe Camel Advertising Campagin

July 2, 1997

• Investment Schemes Sprouting New Hybrids

• Prepared Statement of Theresa Schwartz, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection

July 1, 1997

• FTC Issues a Laundry List of Care Label Symbol Partnerships

• FTC Allows Merger of the Boeing Company and McDonnell Douglas Corporation

• FTC Publishes Three Notices of New Rights and Duties under the Fair Credit Reporting Act

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