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landmarks
This page highlights some landmarks in the development
of consumer protection, with a particular emphasis on
Australia.
It covers -
It
is complemented by the broader timeline
elsewhere on this site.
beginnings
1202 Assize of Bread (UK), later claimed as first
English food safety law
1396 French edict prohibits colouring butter
1574 French law prohibits colouring pastries to simulate
presence of eggs
1641 Massachusetts requires official inspection of meat
and fish
1820 Accum's A Treatise on Adulterations of Food &
Culinary Poisons
1837 Langridge v Levy (UK)
1846 Fatal Accidents Act (UK)
1848 federal Drug Importation Act (US)
1851 Analytical Sanitary Commission reports in The
Lancet
1856 Hassall's Food: Its Adulterations & Detection
1872 Adulteration of Food & Drugs Act 1872
(UK)
1875 Sale of Food & Drugs Act 1875 (UK)
1890 Sherman Antitrust Act (US)
1890 Book Purchasers' Protection Act 1890 (NSW)
1893 Carlill v Carbolic Smoke Ball (UK)
1894 Nordenfelt v Maxim (UK)
1897 federal Tea Importation Act (US)
1902 federal Biologics Control Act (US)
1906 Australian Industries Preservation Act 1906
(Cth)
bringing in the state
1906 Sinclair's The Jungle
1906 federal Pure Food & Drugs Act (US)
1914 Federal Trade Commission Act (US)
1923 Sale of Goods Act 1923 (NSW)
1932 Donoghue v Stevenson (UK)
1933Grant v Australian Knitting Mills (Aust)
1934 David Jones v Willis (Aust)
1937 'Elixir of Sulfanilamide' disaster in US
1938 federal Food, Drug & Cosmetic Act (US)
1941 Hire-Purchase Agreements Act 1941 (NSW)
1943 Lay-By Sales Act 1943 (NSW)
1946 Wakeman's The Hucksters
1948 Prices Regulation Act 1948 (NSW)
1952 Whyte's Is Anybody Listening?
1956 beginning of global Thalidomide disaster
1957 launch of Which? by UK Association for Consumer
Research
1957 Credit-Sale Agreements Act 1957 (NSW)
1957 Packard's The Hidden Persuaders
1959 establishment of Australian Consumers Association
(ACA)
1960 Packard's The Waste Makers
1962 Molony Report on Consumer Protection (UK)
1963 Mitford's The American Way of Death
the TPA and UNCITRAL
1965 Trade Practices Act 1965 (Cth)
1965 Nader's Unsafe At Any Speed
1968 United Nations Commission on International Trade
Law (UNCITRAL)
1968 Trade Descriptions Act 1968 (UK)
1969 NSW Consumer Protection Act 1969 (NSW)
1970 Consumer Affairs Act 1970 (Tas)
1971 federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (US)
1971 Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1971 (Cth)
1972 federal Consumer Product Safety Act (US)
1974 Trade Practices Act (Cth)
1974 Consumer Credit Act 1974 (UK)
1975 Fair Credit Reports Act (SA)
1976 federal Medical Device Amendments Act (US)
1977 Sale of Hazardous Goods Act 1977 (Tas)
1980 UN Convention for the International Sale of Goods
(CISG)
1980 OECD Guidelines on Data Privacy Protection
1982 Taco Co v Taco Bell (Cth)
1983 Prices Surveillance Act 1983 (Cth)
1985 UN Guidelines for Consumer Protection
1986 Commerce Act 1986 (NZ)
1987 Consumer Protection Act 1987 (UK)
1987 Fair Trading Act 1987 (NSW)
1988 Consumer Affairs Act 1988 (Tas)
1990 federal Nutrition Labeling & Education Act (US)
1992 Ministerial Council on Consumer Affairs (MCCA) promotes
mutual recognition of state/territory consumer protection
legislation
1994 Canter & Siegel's How To Make A Fortune
1995 NCP reforms
1995 National Competition Policy Reforms in Australia
1995 Competition Policy Reform Act 1995 (Cth)
1995 Trade Practices Commission fused with Prices Surveillance
Authority as Australian Competition & Consumer Commission
(ACCC)
1995 Trade Practices Tribunal becomes Australian Competition
Tribunal
1998 Competition Act 1998 (UK)
1999 OECD Guidelines for Consumer Protection in the Context
of
Electronic Commerce
2000 Electronic Commerce Directive (EU)
2001 Peters WA v Peterville (2001)
2002 Directive on Privacy & Electronic Communications
(EU)
2003 OECD guidelines
2003 OECD Guidelines for Protecting Consumers from
Fraudulent & Deceptive Commercial Practices Across
Borders
2003 federal Fair & Accurate Credit Transactions
Act (US)
2004 establishment of Global Trustmark Alliance (GTA)
2005 OECD report on Consumer Dispute Resolution and
Redress in the Global Marketplace
2007 ACCC action against Google
2007 OECD Recommendation on Consumer Dispute
Resolution and Redress
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