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John Fitzgerald Kennedy: “If consumers are offered inferior products, if prices are exorbitant, if drugs are unsafe or worthless, if the consumer…”

On the recordMarch 14, 1962
If consumers are offered inferior products, if prices are exorbitant, if drugs are unsafe or worthless, if the consumer is unable to choose on an informed basis, then his dollar is wasted, his health and safety may be threatened, and the national interest suffers.
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John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Special Message to the Congress on Protecting the Consumer Interest.

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