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Article: Consumer Reports' flubs relatively few but notable
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- The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
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- January 21, 2007
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JIM FITZGERALD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
01-21-2007
Consumer Reports' flubs relatively few but notable -- Car seat mistake joins list of past miscalculations; venerable magazine occasionally subject of lawsuits
By JIM FITZGERALD, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Date: 01-21-2007, Sunday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Consumer Reports once mismeasured the ingredients in dog food. Just last year, it screwed up the depreciation rates of hybrid cars.
But it's rare for the trusted, independent Consumer Reports to go as wrong as it did in its report this month on infant car seats. The report was retracted Thursday when it turned out that side-impact crashes ...