Public Relations for Consumer Protection

Public relation for consumer protection agencies isCommission goes after dietary supplements or
very important, however it is often abused by variousover-the-counter vitamins because the drug
government agencies as they try to promotecompanies do not want the competition. The drug
themselves and their worth to the community andcompanies obviously have lobbyists and can easily get
consumer without regard for actual truth. For instancea small company investigated who is out selling a
let's take a case study.product.
The Federal Trade Commission went after Hooked onIf the Federal Trade Commission is involved in stuff like
Phonics and nearly shut the business down. Later wethis then they too are called into question and they will
found out that the teachers unions were behind thisneed a crisis management team to come in and help
and a senator requested an investigation. That is notwith their public relations.
very fair and if the consumer protection agency likeIf agencies like the Federal Trade Commission are truly
the Federal Trade Commission promotes this asgoing to do their job then they need to do it with
something they have done to help the consumer thenintegrity otherwise no one will listen to their public
they are breaking their own laws in misrepresentationrelations anymore and that is a very serious issue that
in advertising.needs to be addressed in our civilization. Please
Another case study might be when the Federal Tradeconsider this in 2006.