Commission Actions

WHAT: The Federal Trade Commission will hold a NEWS CONFERENCE to announce a multi-agency, federal and state campaign called "Project Mousetrap." Mousetrap employs a new strategy to combat the...

WHAT: A conference kicking off "Project DETER." The goal of the conference is to begin a dialogue about how to protect people who are moving from welfare to work from consumer fraud that might target...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Commission action regarding petitions to reopen and modify FTC orders: Following a comment period, the FTC has ruled on a petition...

As part of an ongoing nationwide law enforcement program to identify funeral homes that fail to comply with the Funeral Rule, the Federal Trade Commission today announced the results of a funeral home...

A federal/state study of "short-filling" of milk, other dairy products and juice found that over 40 percent of the groups of packages inspected contained less product than stated on their labels --...

In response to a petition from the Center for Media Education, the staff of the Federal Trade Commission today released a letter that outlines several principles that it believes should generally...

The Federal Trade Commission today announced the following action. Applications for approval of transactions: The FTC has received an application for approval for a transaction from the following...

Four federal agencies, eight state Attorneys General officials, local law enforcers and consumer and civic organizations today announced 26 law enforcement actions against telemarketers who target...

The Federal Trade Commission made public today the results of tar, nicotine and carbon monoxide testing for 1,206 varieties of domestic cigarettes sold in 1994. The report to Congress, titled "Tar...

Statement by Anthony Di Resta, Director Atlanta Regional Office Federal Trade Commission Good Morning. I'm grateful to all of you who are here this morning as we announce the results of "Peach Sweep,"...