This Day In Consumer History
November 3rd, 1966
It was on this day, 41 years ago, that the U.S. Congress passed the first law requiring manufacturers to list the contents of their items on product labels. It was known as the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act and it is responsible for books like and reality television shows like The . It’s also responsible for keeping you from eating an overabundance of rat feces and ketchup spiders.
I guess Mattel didn’t get the memo.
Posted by consumatron on November 3rd, 2007 filed in Uncategorized
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