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Food Policy Insider: November 2025

Consumer Reports’ monthly roundup of its efforts to promote a safe and healthy food system. In this month’s Food Policy Insider: What does an extended…

October 28, 2025

Food

Consumer Reports letter urging FDA not to exempt infant formula or medical foods from its definition of ultra-processed foods

Letter from Consumer Reports calling on the Food and Drug Administration to include infant formula and medical foods in its definition of ultra-processed foods, since…

October 28, 2025

Food

Consumer Reports Supports S. 2619, the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act

Consumer Reports strongly supports S. 2619, the Massachusetts Data Privacy Act (MDPA), comprehensive privacy legislation that would create critical protections to safeguard the privacy of…

October 25, 2025

Tech & Privacy

CFPB’s medical debt rule faces an uncertain future. States must work quickly to fill in the gaps

By Christine Chen Zinner and Chuck Bell In early January 2025, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) finalized a medical debt rule that would have…

October 23, 2025

Money

Press Release

Consumer Reports Releases Blueprint for a Fairer Home Insurance Market: A Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights

WASHINGTON, DC—The growing number of extreme weather events, combined with inflation and rising construction costs, have destabilized the home insurance market. As a result, consumers…

October 22, 2025

Money

Press Release

Consumer Reports statement on the food industry’s new campaign to block state bans on harmful food chemicals

WASHINGTON DC – Brian Ronholm, director of food policy at Consumer Reports, issued the following statement in response to the food industry’s misleadingly named Americans…

October 21, 2025

Food

Where We Stand: A Homeowners Insurance Bill of Rights

The increasing frequency of extreme weather events, combined with the rising cost of repairs and building materials, has destabilized the home insurance market. Homeowners increasingly…

October 21, 2025

Money

Press Release

Consumer Reports urges CFPB to maintain robust consumer protections as the bureau considers revising its “open banking” rule

CR outlines protections needed to ensure consumers can access their financial data at no charge with strong privacy and security safeguards WASHINGTON DC – In…

October 21, 2025

Money

Consumer Reports letter urging the CFPB to maintain strong consumer protections as the bureau revises its “open banking” rule

Letter from Consumer Reports to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau urging the bureau to maintain robust consumer protections in any revision of the Personal Financial…

October 20, 2025

Money

Press Release

Consumer Reports calls on FDA to set strict limits on lead in protein powders

CR investigation finds two-thirds of protein powders and shakes tested contained high levels of lead in a single serving YONKERS, NY – Consumer Reports urged…

October 14, 2025

Food