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Consumer
Information
- Ads for International Drivers'
Licenses or Permits Could Be a Dead End [TEXT]
[PDF]
- After a Disaster:
Repairing Your Home [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Aging Parents and Adult Children
Together (A/PACT) [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Alaskan Native Art [TEXT]
[PDF]
- All That Glitters... How to Buy
Jewelry [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Auction Guides: Not So Hot Properties
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Beloved...Bejeweled...Be Careful:
What to Know Before You Buy Jewelry [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying a Washing Machine? It's
a Load-ed Question [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying Cashmere? Avoid Pulled
Wool [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying Gold and Gemstone Jewelry:
The Heart of the Matter [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Buying Time: The Facts About
Pre-Paid Phone Cards [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Can Anti-Snoring Claims Be Cause
for Alarm? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Caring for Your Clothes
[TEXT]
- Choosing a Career or Vocational
School [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Cigars: No Such Thing As a Safe
Smoke [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Clothing Care Symbol Guide
[TEXT]
- Continuity Plans: Coming to You
Like Clockwork [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Cost of "Free" Adult
Content Adds Up [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Eco-Speak: A Users Guide
to the Language of Recycling [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Electronic Checkout Scanners
Campaign [TEXT]
- Energy Efficient Light Bulbs:
A Bright Idea [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Entertainment Ratings: Pocket
Guide [TEXT]
[PDF]
- 'Free Grants': Don't Take Them For Grant-ed
[TEXT] [PDF]
- "Free" and "Low-Cost"
PC Offers. Go Figure. [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FTC Explains Made in USA
Standard To Confirm Cons. Confidence [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Funerals: A Consumer Guide
[TEXT]
- The Gifting Club "Gotcha"
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Green Card Lottery Scams
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Guide to the Federal Trade Commission
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Holiday Shopping: Is a Sale Price
Your Best Deal? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home-Use Tests For HIV Can Be
Inaccurate, FTC Warns [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home Improvement: Tools You Can
Use Campaign [TEXT]
- Home Insulation Basics: Higher
R-Values = Higher Insulating Values [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home Sweet Home Improvement
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Home Remodeling (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Paying Upfront: Home Improvements
(audio) [TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- How to Buy Genuine American Indian
Arts and Crafts [TEXT]
[PDF]
- How to Right a Wrong
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- If You've Got "The Look"
... Look Out! Avoiding Modeling Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Modeling Scams (audio)
[TEXT]
[RAM]
[MP3]
- Internet Auctions: A Guide for
Buyer and Sellers [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Invention Promotion Firms
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Jingle Bells, Jingle Sells: Tips
for Holiday Shopping [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Kitchen Gadgets Offer Food for
"Thaw-t" [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Living Trust Offers: How to Make
Sure They're Trust-worthy [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Long Distance Deals
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Lotions and Potions: The Bottom
Line About Multilevel Marketing Plans [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Making Sense of Long Distance
Advertising [TEXT]
- Making Sure the Scanned Price
Is Right [TEXT]
[PDF]
- More Than Once Upon a Mattress:
Used Bedding Labeling Rules [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Prenotification Negative Option
Plans [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Need a Lawyer? Judge for Yourself
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Now Consumers Can Tell It to
the FTC - Toll-Free [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Personal Emergency Response Systems
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Petal Pushers: Is Your 'Local'
Florist Really Long-Distance? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Problems With Holiday Purchases?
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Project CLEAN Campaign
[TEXT]
- Pump Fiction [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Radiation Shields: Do They 'Cell'
Consumers Short? [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Resolving Consumer Disputes:
Mediation and Arbitration [TEXT]
[PDF]
- A Rose Is A Rose Is A Ruse? Campaign
[TEXT]
- Safe Shopping Tips (Holiday Shopping
Tips) [TEXT]
- Service Contracts [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Servicing Your Furnace (audio)
[RAM]
[MP3]
- So You've Got a Great Idea? Campaign
[TEXT]
- Solving Consumer Problems
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Spotting Sweet-Sounding Promises
of Fraudulent Invention Promotion Firms [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Sun-Protective Clothing: Wear
It Well [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Sunscreens and Sun-Protective
Clothing [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Taking the "Bait" Out
of Rebates [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Thinking About a Home Improvement?
Don't Get Nailed [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Tips for Making Environmental
Marketing Claims on Mail [TEXT]
- Trial Offers: The Deal Is in
the Details [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Unordered Merchandise
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Up In Smoke: The Truth About
Tar and Nicotine Ratings [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Using Internet Access Products
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Warranties [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Wash Daze: Laundry Gadgets Won't
Lighten the Load [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Weathering the High Cost of Heating
Your Home [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Who Cares: Sources of Information
About Health Care Products and Services [TEXT]
- Wish I Was There Campaign (Operation
Trip Trap - Travel Scams) [TEXT]
Business
Information
- A Businessperson's Guide to Federal
Warranty Law [TEXT]
- Appliance Labeling Rule Homepage
[TEXT]
- Big Print. Little Print. What's
the Deal? How to Disclose the Details [TEXT]
[PDF]
- A Business Guide to the Federal
Trade Commission's: MAIL OR TELEPHONE ORDER MERCHANDISE
RULE [TEXT]
[PDF]
- The Cachet of Cashmere: Complying
with the Wool Products Labeling Act [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Calling It Cotton: Labeling &
Advertising Cotton Products [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Clothes Captioning: Complying
with the Care Labeling Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Complying with the Environmental
Marketing Guides [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Complying with the FTC's Appliance
Labeling Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Complying with the Funeral Rule
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Complying with the Made In the
USA Standard [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Disclosing Energy Efficiency
Information: A Guide for Online Sellers of Appliances
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Down...But Not Out: Advertising
& Labeling of Feather and Down Products [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Environmental Marketing Claims
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Five Steps to Avoiding Office
Supply Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- FTC Offers RN Applications Online
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Good Pricing Practices? SCAN
DO [TEXT]
[PDF]
- How to Comply With The Children's
Online Privacy Protection Rule [TEXT]
[PDF]
- In-FUR-mation - How to Comply
with the Fur Products Labeling Act [TEXT]
[PDF]
- In The Loupe: Advertising Diamonds,
Gemstones and Pearls [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Internet Auctions: A Guide for
Buyer and Sellers [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Labeling Alternative Fueled Vehicles
[TEXT]
- Labeling Alternative Fuels
[TEXT]
- Measuring Up! Good Packaging
Practices for Dairy Products [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Offering Layaways [TEXT]
- Project BOSS: Banish Office Supply
Scams [TEXT]
- Project Boss Video News Release
[length: 3 mins, 13 sec] Real
Media Windows
Media
- Selling 'American-Made' Products?
What Businesses Need to Know About Making Made in USA Claims
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Selling on the Internet: Prompt
Delivery Rules [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Threading Your Way Through the
Labeling Requirements Under the Textile and Wool Acts
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Website Woes: Avoiding Web Service
Scams [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Wedding Gown Labels: Unveiling
the Requirements [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Writing Readable Warranties
[TEXT]
Guides
- Guides for the Household Furniture
Industry [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Guides for the Jewelry, Precious
Metals, and Pewter Industries [TEXT]
[PDF]
- Jewelry Guides and Information [TEXT]
Policy
Statements
- Enforcement Policy Statement
on Food Advertising [TEXT]
- Enforcement Policy Statement
on US Origin Claims (Made In USA) [TEXT]
- Joint FCC/FTC Policy Statement For the Advertising
of Dial-Around And Other Long-Distance Services To Consumers
[PDF]
- "Made In USA" Standard
- Homepage [TEXT]
Rules
and Acts
- Dolphin Protection Consumer Information
Act [TEXT]
- Energy Policy Act of 1992
[TEXT]
- Fair Packaging and Labeling Act
[TEXT]
- Fur Products Labeling Act
[TEXT]
- Magnuson Moss Warranty-Federal
Trade Commission Improvements Act [TEXT]
- Postal Reorganization Act of
1970 [TEXT]
- Textile Fiber Products Identification
Act [TEXT]
- Wool Products Labeling Act
[TEXT]
Staff
Comments and Letters
- Staff Report: Milk: Does It Measure
Up? --One Year Later-- (08/98) [TEXT]
- Staff Report: Milk: Does It Measure
Up? (7/97) [TEXT]
- Staff Report: PRICE CHECK: A
Report on the Accuracy of Checkout Scanners(10/96)
[TEXT]
[PDF]
- Staff Report: Revised FTC, Justice
Dept Policy Statements on Health Care Antritrust Enforcement
(8/96) [TEXT]
[PDF]
Workshops
- "Made in USA" Review
[TEXT]
Business
Resources
En
Español
- Amado...Adornado...¡Con cuidado!
[TEXT]
[PDF]
Beloved...Bejeweled...Be Careful
- Comprando Oro y Piedras Preciosas:
Llegando al Grano [TEXT]
[PDF]
Buying Gold and Gemstone Jewelery: The Heart of the Matter
- Cómo Reparar su Casa Después
de un Desastre [TEXT]
[PDF]
After a Disaster: Repairing Your Home
- Escudos de Radiación: ¿Afectan
las células de los consumidores? [TEXT]
[PDF]
Radiation Shields: Do They 'Cell' Consumers Short?
- Funerales: Guía para el Consumidor[TEXT]
Funerals: A Consumer Guide
- Hogar, Dulce ...Remodelación
del Hogar [TEXT]
Home Sweet Home ... Improvement
- Los Anuncios de Licencias o Permisos
Internacionales para Conducir Pueden Ser un Callejón sin
Salida [TEXT]
[PDF]
Ads for International Driver's Licenses or Permits Could
Be a Dead End
- ¿Necesita un Abogado? Sea Usted
el Juez [TEXT]
[PDF]
Need a Lawyer? Judge for Yourself
- Quien ha Dormido en su Colchon:
Reglamentos Sobre Etiquetas Para Colchones Usados
[TEXT]
[PDF]
More Than Once Upon a Mattress: Used Bedding Labeling Rules
- Recomendaciones para unas Felices
Compras de Fin de Año [TEXT]
Jingle Bells, Jingle Sells: Tips for Holiday Shopping
- Su Boleto para Adquirir Enseres del Hogar Eficientes
[PDF]
The EnergyGuide Label: Your Ticket to Energy-Efficient Appliances
- Todo lo que brilla... Cómo comprar
joyas [TEXT]
[PDF]
All That Glitters ... How to Buy Jewelery
Last Updated:
Wednesday, April 7, 2004
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