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Safe Food, Healthy Kids

Did you know, most fast food chains have safety standards 10 times stronger for beef than the USDA has set for school lunches?

For years, the meat industry and other food interests have lobbied against stronger food safety standards. We’re fighting back, because if it’s not good enough for fast food, it’s not good enough for school food. Learn more.

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Major Product Safety Bill Passes Congress

Thanks to your calls and e-mails, Congress send a major product safety overhaul bill to the president's desk. Among other provisions, the bill requires manufacturers to inspect toys and bans lead and phthalates from childrens' products.

Congress Ends Practice Of Self-Policing

In March, our advocacy won a new independent office that will end an era of congressional self-policing that allowed the Jack Abramoffs of the world to play fast and loose with money in politics.

Read more about our work on lobby reform

USDA's New Performance Standards Should Bring Safer Poultry to Market More

Consumer Group Alerts Shoppers to Hidden Toy Hazards: Calls passage of strong reforms good step forward, but warns “Buyer Beware” this year More

Statement of U.S. PIRG Consumer Program Director Ed Mierzwinski on Final Passage of Wall Street Bailout Legislation Today More

Statement: Defeat of Wall Street Bailout More

House Legislation Joins Senate in Boosting Rail Travel More