Consumer Information

Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPS) -- On this web site, users may search for recently recalled products by product type, company, or product description or they may search the entire database back to May 1973 by month and year or product description.

E-How -- "Provides clear instructions on how to do (just about ) anything."

Edmunds.com -- provides easy access to safety information, road tests, advice and evaluative information on buying a new or used vehicle.

Epinions -- offers the consumer an opportunity to check out what other users are saying about a particular product and provide a different perspective.

How Everyday Things are Made

How Much Is That Worth Today? -- answers questions of comparative value covering purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today, such as the purchasing power of money in the United States from any year from 1665 to the present.

How Products are Made -- Search by keyword or browse alphabetically everything from Accordion to Zirconium.

How to Clean Anything

How Stuff Works

Kelly Blue Book -- offers used and new car pricing; values on used motorcycles, dirt bikes, ATVs, scooters, mopeds, and sidecars. New car reviews and a list of the 50 most popular selling cars are also given.

NADA Guides -- provides new and used car prices and information. Also includes classic cars, motorcycles, boats, RVs and manufactured homes. Contains new care reviews. Offers car loan, insurance and extended warranty links.

Recalls.gov - a joint venture between the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the U.S. Coast Guard, the Food and Drug Administration , the Food Safety and Inspection Service and the Environmental Protection Agency. Its purpose is to provide better service in alerting the American people to unsafe, hazardous, or defective products.

What's that Stuff -- is a selection of articles on what goes into common products. Useful for health concerns, science projects and general science discussion.

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