Back in the Day The Birth of a Movement Consumer Warriors PIRG on the Scene
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What is The Jungle
Sinclair "aimed at the public’s heart and by accident hit it in the stomach" in what 1906 work on the meatpacking industry
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What is meat
Product in 1899 that sparked public outrage when some of it was sold to the U.S. Army that smelled like an "embalmed dead body"
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Who is Ralph Nader
He established a number of consumer groups with the money he won from suing GM for harassment and intimidation
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What are art supplies
In 1984, CALPIRG helped pass two state-level measures to ban the purchase and require labels on toxic this product, which led to the passage of federal legislation 4 years later
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What is the industrial revolution
The event that expanded our capacity to produce goods and food, and arguably launched us into a post-scarcity society
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What is the Meat Inspection Act
Passed at the same time as the Pure Food and Drug Act, this law is a foundation of modern U.S. food regulation and takes aim at a specific industry
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Who is Ed
PIRG staffer who testified before Congress a bill to get toxic toys off the shelf, and to bolster the CPSC’s budget and authority
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What is 1986
Year we released the first ever Trouble in Toyland report
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What is smallpox vaccine
One incident that galvanized the public was the 1901 death of more than 20 children due to a tainted what?
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What is the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)
After publication of "Unsafe at Any Speed," this government entity was established to set safety standards for all motor vehicles
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Who is Bob
The CPSC employee who was the sole tester of toys, working out of a run-down, rodent-infested lab in Maryland
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What is fragrance
Though manufacturers claim this information is a trade secret, we believe they should disclose ingredients in this common component of personal products
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What are the 1910s
The decade in which America became primarily urban, marking a shift in the relationship between consumers and producers
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What is the Corvair
The model of car with a faulty rear suspension system at the center of "Unsafe at Any Speed"
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Who is Donald Ross
Nader and this man authored Action for a Change: A Student's Manual for Public Interest Organizing, which proposed the model for student PIRG chapters
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What is USA Today
The paper in which we placed a full page ad asking “When Will Congress Ban Dangerous Toys?”






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