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RECIPIENT PROFILE

www.consumeralert.org/

Consumer Alert

Washington, DC

Bills itself as "THE FREE-MARKET CONSUMER GROUP"

The following is from the Center for Science in the Public Interest's website:

CONSUMER ALERT

Consumer Alert received about $10,000 from the food industry in 2000. (Frances Smith of Consumer Alert spoke at FDA Consumer Roundtable, December 13, 2000)

Funded by such companies as Chevron, Eli Lilly and Philip Morris.
[The Observer, by Cockburn & Silverstein, 5/26/96]

Funding from Philip Morris, American Cyanamid, Exxon, Eli Lilly, Elanco, Pfizer, Anheuser, Busch, Coors, and Chevron. Corporations provide more than 60% of the group's funding.
[Health News & Review, 6/22/93]

According to a trade publication, "heavily backed by liquor interests" and opposing increase in federal excise taxes.
[Industry Week, 6/29/87]

The Washington Post reported that "Consumer Alert Advocate Fund, an Illinois-basedgroup in whose name the beer industry has placed full-page, anti-excise ads in 57 newspapers. . ..The group receives contributions from individuals - and from the telephone, auto and oil industries."
[Washington Post, 6/19/87, p. A23]

Consumer Alert received $2,500 from Amoco in 1992.
[Capital Research Center, http://www.capitalresearch.org]

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