- Dina ElBoghdady
- Reporter
Dina ElBoghdady reports on consumer regulatory issues, including food safety, privacy and consumer product safety. Before joining the Post, ElBoghdady covered Capitol Hill and then the auto industry for the Washington bureau of the Detroit News. She had also worked in the Orange County Register’s Washington bureau, writing about the county’s congressional delegation. ElBoghdady’s first job in journalism was at States News Service, where she reported on Congress for several California newspapers.
- Pom tests limits of FTC power with ad campaign
- Generic-drug makers’ complaints over brand-name access prompt investigations
- FDA bans Korean shellfish from U.S. distribution
- Skechers agrees to $40 million settlement for claims about shoes’ benefits
- USDA to test beef for more strains of E. coli
- Food-safety rules in limbo at Office of Management and Budget
- Mad cow case raises the issue of tracking livestock
- Mad cow disease discovered in California animal, but food supply declared safe
- ‘Pink slime’ outrage goes viral in stunning display of social media’s power
- Human Genome Sciences rejects $2.59B buyout offer from drugmaker Glaxo
- FDA seizes contaminated ultrasound gel
- FCC metes out light penalty for Google in Street View case
- FDA plan would seek voluntary limits of antibiotics in animal feed
- Baby bicycle seats get recalled after 2 children suffer injuries to their fingers
- Court orders FDA to examine antibiotics use on animals
- Congressman moves to ban BPA from food packaging
- Iowa law sets up fight between animal activists, farms
- Safety concerns, industry changes push U.S. to rethink approach to food inspection
- Replacement-window firms agree to settlement with Federal Trade Commission
- 400 shades of lipstick found to contain lead, FDA says
- FDA budget stays about the same at $2.5 billion
- Junk food widely available at U.S. elementary schools despite anti-obesity push
- Asset Acceptance, a debt-buying agency, to pay $2.5 million in FTC settlement
- Entrepreneurs try to fill gap in online medical help
- Some doctors try to squelch online reviews
- Schools to serve more-nutritious meals under new guidelines
- Obama nominates Marietta Robinson for CPSC
- FDA: Orange juice recall isn’t warranted
- CVS Caremark to pay $5 million in reimbursement to customers, FTC says
- Cadmium-laced jewelry removed from stores
- FDA to limit antibiotics to treat livestock to prevent ‘superbugs’
- FTC hard-pressed to secure refunds for job-scam victims
- Officials urge FTC to toughen settlement with maker of high-alcohol drink
- Lawmakers want cost-benefit analysis on child food marketing restrictions
- FDA faulted over state inspections
- FDA agrees to determine safety of BPA
- Some children’s cereals packed with sugar, study finds
- FTC continues push against fake-news Web sites peddling weight-loss products
- FDA funding boosted through lobbying effort
- At Senate hearing, trade groups split over efforts to ravamp chemical-safety law
- USDA: Continuing to serve pizza to schoolchildren won’t save much money
- Keeping unhealthy food in schools won’t save money, USDA says
- Obama administration loses effort to make school lunches healthier
- Partisan gridlock threatens Consumer Product Safety Commission regulation
- $3 billion settlement expected in GlaxoSmithKline drug-marketing probe
- Crib mattresses: 72 percent of models use suspect chemicals, advocacy group says
- Debt collectors harassed consumers with violent threats, FTC says
- Study links BPA exposure in womb to behavior problems in toddler girls
- Deductible for homeowners insurance rising? Make sure your premium is falling.
- Nutrition rating, labeling system proposed
- Unsanitary packing probably led to cantaloupe outbreak
- CPSC database faces first legal challenge
- Raw oysters still a health threat, GAO report finds
- Federal regulators rethinking guidelines on marketing food to children
- Recalled items faulted in numerous consumer complaints
- Four Loko to relabel cans to show alcohol content
- Facebook tracking prompts calls for FTC investigation
- Reebok to refund $25M to customers who bought EasyTone, RunTone shoes
- Md. proposes ban on crib bumper sales
- Consumer Product Safety Commission to discuss stricter regulations for table saws
- Listeria outbreak traced to Colo. cantaloupes claims victims in Md., Va.
- FDA confirms Listeria outbreak is linked to cantaloupe grown at Colorado farm
- Time to refinance — again?
- New limits on mortgage size likely to affect high-end home prices in D.C. area
- Real estate commissions on the up
- Deadline extended for mortgage servicers deal
- And the broker takes a slice
- Soaring real estate commissions
- Federal payments halted to 3 mortgage servicers
- Federal housing proposal would toughen debt restrictions on mortgages
- Home prices hit lowest level since April ’09 in double dip
- 2 attorneys general subpoena companies in foreclosure probes
- Banking industry posts best quarter of profits since early 2007
- GOP proposes increase in FHA down payments
- Rules in place for D.C. foreclosure-prevention program
- Existing-home sales fall in April
- Growing number of consumers pay credit card debt before mortgage
- Rate of foreclosure activity in D.C. area at a low point
- State attorneys general in D.C. for talks on fund to aid homeowners
- Sheila Bair to leave FDIC post
- Ruling may slow foreclosures in South Carolina
- Mortgage clearinghouse taps new chief executive
- Housing prices up in Washington region
- Affordable rental housing scarce in U.S., study finds
- ‘Strategic defaulters’ pay bills on time and plan ahead, study finds
- Existing home sales rise, but market shows little momentum
- Oklahoma attorney general to craft alternative deal in foreclosure settlement
- Fed offers up two options for protecting lenders
- Obama administration defends financial overhaul
- Budget deal slashes grants to housing counselors
- Clearing up the confusion on housing policy
- Housing officials criticize 20% down-payment proposal
- Regulators, mortgage servicers agree on reforms
- Senators say down-payment requirement not their intent for finance law
- Down payment proposal could make a mountain out of a mortgage
- Level of U.S. home construction drops sharply
- FHA commissioner David Stevens to head Mortgage Bankers Association
- What to expect from D.C.-area housing market this spring
- Major changes ahead for mortgage system as U.S. seeks to scale back role in housing
- Federal Housing Administration leader David Stevens will leave post
- Administration accused of bypassing Congress in negotiating deal with banks
- State attorneys general negotiate with mortgage servicers as protesters gather
- Obama officials, attorneys general closer to terms of possible deal with banks in foreclosure mess
- Regulators craft mortgage-lending rules
- House may kill Obama’s foreclosure-prevention programs
- Federal support for home loans essential, Geithner warns
- Cash deals raise January sales of existing homes nationwide, report says
- In their fight with banks over mortgage losses, investors get on borrowers’ side
- Mortgage delinquency rates improve
- Mortgage delinquency rates drop
- NYSE parent to merge with German exchange
- NYSE parent to merge with German exchange
- Obama administration proposals to reduce federal role in housing market
- Size of FHA-backed mortgages should shrink, report says
- Size of FHA-backed mortgages should shrink, report says
- Low rates driving more ‘cash-in’ refinances
- Low rates prompting more 'cash-in' refinances
- Despite price rebound, many Washington area homeowners still face steep losses
- Despite price rebound, many Washington area homeowners still face steep losses
- Outside D.C., a grim housing market
- Outside D.C., a grim housing market
- Mixed-message economy a challenge for Fed
- Federal Reserve leaders face encouraging yet unnerving picture ahead of meeting
- Annual home sales at lowest point in 13 years; December sees uptick
- Ally Financial to withdraw Maryland foreclosures signed by Jeffrey Stephan
- Ally Financial to withdraw Maryland foreclosures signed by Jeffrey Stephan
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