CR highlights efforts to safeguard children's lunches from heavy metals and food dyes, advocate for better car safety tests, and limit bank overdraft fees.

(A version of this article appeared in the June 2013 issue of Consumer Reports magazine with the headline "Buying Beef? Read This First.") ...

"Extinguish Holiday Heartburn" (Health, November 2011) is timely and interesting. I'm surprised, though, that you didn't mention sodium bicarbonate—old-fashioned baking soda. In your article "Go ...

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Americans are buying more fish-oil supplements than ever, but in industry-standard tests of 15 top-selling brands conducted by an outside lab for Consumer Reports, five fell a bit short.

Consumer Reports food safety experts believe those levels do carry a risk. There is no federal limit for arsenic in rice and rice products. (The FDA has proposed a "action level" for arsenic in ...

Fiber-rich cereals have made progress on the road to tastiness. Fourteen years ago, Consumer Reports found that most high-fiber cereals "tasted more like straw than grain." But in our latest tests ...

Looking for a new vehicle? The Car Guide ’s Best Buys section is always a good place to start. If you have a particular model ...

Consumer Reports looks at why experts are raising concerns about sugar substitutes showing up in surprising places. Trisha Calvo, a health journalist with Consumer Reports, says sugar substitutes are ...

With holiday spending just behind us, the last thing anyone wants to hear about is how to spend more money. But what if that spending could rack up savings down the road? From home heating hacks to ...