Dumpster diving is commonly practiced by "watchdog" organizations seeking information on groups they are investigating.
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The Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is a not-for-profit and non-ministerial government department of the United Kingdom, established by the Fair Trading Act 1973, which enforces both consumer protection and competition law, acting as the UK's economic regulator.
He is known for his strong advocacy of consumer protection and privacy issues, particularly in the state of California, having worked with the California State Assembly, the Los Angeles City Council, the California Employment Development Department and the San Fernando Valley Employer Advisory Council.
They have three ministers in Berlin: Hans-Peter Friedrich (Federal Ministry of the Interior), Peter Ramsauer (Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Affairs) and Ilse Aigner (Minister of Food, Agriculture and Consumer Protection).
After unsuccessfully standing as a Labour Party candidate in the 1989 European Elections he became a researcher for the Chairman of the European Parliament's Committee on Environment, Public Health and Consumer Protection, Sir Ken Collins.
Finally, he was until 1989 EU Commissioner for relations with the EU Parliament for Regional Policies (1985) and for Consumer Protection (1986 to 1989) in the first Commission of Jacques Delors.
Consumer protection advocate Stephen Barrett is a strong supporter of HONcode and has made efforts to improve compliance with its rules and to expose those who misuse it.
The Institute for Health and Consumer Protection or IHCP, located in Ispra, Italy, is one of the seven institutes of the Joint Research Centre (JRC), a Directorate-General of the European Commission (EC).
Implementation of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act's new requirements, including the transfer of the Office of Thrift Supervision's functions into the OCC
Attorney and consumer protection activist Ralph Nader described this type of handling in his 1965 book Unsafe at Any Speed
In 1981, the Maryland Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division took Luskin's to court over deceptive advertising prices on three occasions.
Federal Trade Commission Bureau of Consumer Protection (part of the US Commerce department)
In addition, the company agreed to pay $2.5 million to the states involved as part of a consumer protection settlement with what had expanded to 20 state Attorneys General, and turn over the website GIBill.com to the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to settle the civil investigation.
Ranjit Kamble is the present State Minister of Water Supply and Sanitation, Food and Civil Supplies, Consumer Protection, Tourism and Public Works(PWD) in the Government of Maharashtra in India.
Prior to retirement, she served as Member for Kenwick and Minister for Disability Services, Tourism, Culture and the Arts, and Consumer Protection.
In 2005 the South Korean Consumer Protection Board concluded Samsung's Silver Wash technology was exaggerated in advertisements, due to test results which showed 99.9% removal of germs by similar drum-type washers of LG Electronics, Daewoo Electronics, and Whirlpool.