Editing Arthur Kallet

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| name               = Arthur Kallet
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| birth_date         = December 15, 1902
| birth_place        = [[Syracuse, New York]], U.S.
| death_date         = February 24, 1972
| death_place        = [[New Rochelle, New York]], U.S.
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'''Arthur Kallet''' (December 15, 1902{{spaced ndash}}February 24, 1972) was an American consumer advocate.

== Career ==
An engineer, Kallet co-authored a 1933 book entitled ''[[100,000,000 Guinea Pigs|100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs and Cosmetics]]'' with fellow engineer [[F. J. Schlink|Frederick Schlink]].

In 1936 he left as director of [[Consumers' Research]] after its head, [[F.J. Schlink]], fired three striking employees who had tried to form a union, and joined with [[Amherst College]] professor [[Colston Warne]] to found [[Consumers Union]] and [[Consumer Reports]].

The [[House Un-American Activities Committee]] cited Arthur Kallet as the communist head of Consumers Union, which it cited as a communist front.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/opp01.asp |title= United States Atomic Energy Commission. In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer |first= |last=|work=avalon.law.yale.edu |publisher=Avalon Project |date=May 27, 1954 |accessdate=26 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Isaac|first=Rael Jean|title=The coercive utopians : social deception by America's power players|year=1983|publisher=Regnery Gateway|page=[https://archive.org/details/coerciveutopians0000isaa/page/103 103]|location=Chicago|isbn=978-0895266187|author2=Isaac, Erich|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/coerciveutopians0000isaa/page/103}}</ref>

In 1957, Kallet broke with Warne and left Consumers Union to form [[The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics]], and in 1961, [[Buyers Laboratory Inc]].

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