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{{Show badges| Front groups}} Consumer Alert may have ceased operations. Its former website, www.consumeralert.org, is no longer online. Its website was operational until at least February 2006 (according to the archives at: http://tinyurl.com/2q6soe and http://tinyurl.com/3daeo4, which the owners of the CA domain have blocked).
'''Consumer Alert''', founded in 1977, is a national, non-profit organization concerned with "excessive growth of government regulation at the national and state levels." According to its website, Consumer Alert's mission is to "enhance understanding and appreciation of the consumer benefits of a market economy so that individuals and policymakers rely more on private rather than government approaches to consumer concerns."[http://www.consumeralert.org/info/mission.htm]
In 1998 [[Philip Morris]] was canvassing possible organisations that might be an ally in its Youth Smoking Prevention programs. A memo from [[Roy Marden]] described Consumer Alert as a "DC free market consumer group, antithesis of the Nader effort. Perhaps we could involve them in an effort re responsible corporate activity w/consumers in mind, etc. Long-term recipient of (modest) PM funding". [http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aqg37c00]
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== Personnel ==
*[[Barbara Rippel]], Policy Analyst
==External Linkslinks ==
*Roy Marden, "[http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/tid/aqg37c00 YSP Ally possibilities]", Bates No 2069615360, October 22, 1998.
[http://www.consumeralert.org/ www.consumeralert.org] (now defunct)
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