Our history: 1970s
1970 The National Commission on Product Safety, established in part because of all the products through the years that Consumer Reports had found to be unsafe and therefore Not Acceptable, recommends the creation of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.  1972 CU establishes a consumer-advocacy office in Washington, D.C. Offices in San Francisco and Austin, Texas, follow. 1974 Consumer Reports publishes a three-part series on the contamination of America's water, describing the then-widespread pollution of community water systems, with recommendations for cleaning them up and setting up citizen-action programs around the country. The series wins the magazine's first National Magazine Award (it has now won four), along with other awards.
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