1932 - Consumer Protection

Consumer Protection

100,000,000 Guinea Pigs by Consumer's Research engineer Arthur Kallet, 29, and mechanical engineer-physicist F. J. Schlink of Consumer's Research relates horror stories dramatizing the dangers in some foods, drugs, and cosmetics sold despite the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906 and its amendments (see Schlink, 1929). The book becomes a bestseller, and Kallet breaks with Schlink to start Consumers Union, a rival organization, at Mount Vernon, N.Y. (the House Un-American Affairs Committee will soon cite him as a communist).