NCAC NEWS(Vol.15,No.1)
INDEX
Trends in Consumer Issues
- The Quality-of-Life Policy Council's Consumer Policy Committee prepared and announced "Considerations of a model for 21st century consumer policy" in May 2003
Activities of the NCAC
Product Testing
- Hygiene of the "soft contact lens"
- Safety of electric kettles
Surveys and Studies
- The 33rd Survey of Trends in People's Lives - Descriptive Labeling of Food and Buying Behavior of Consumers
- "A hefty bill for what was supposed to be free" - Fraudulent sales cases on the rise
- Problems involving "power-saving equipment and small transformers" on the increase
- Accidents caused by cigarette lighters as noted in the hazard report - lighters suddenly flared up or victims suffered burns
