By the end of 2009, the European Chemicals Agency had completed 15 of 30 "compliance checks" initiated since registration dossiers started dribbling in under REACH, and almost half of its checks have inspired quality observation letters due to inadequacies, the agency says
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The US FTC’s contention that ‘notice and choice’ has failed as the cornerstone of consumer privacy regulation and must be abandoned in favor of data minimization and other more stringent measures does not adequately account for the complexity of business practices and consumer behavior, FTC commissioner Melissa Holyoak asserted at the NAD’s 2024 Annual Conference.
FTC Commissioner Melissa Holyoak says the agency has acted outside the bounds afforded by Congress, citing several areas within consumer protection, including a recent update to the final rule for the Health Breach Notification Rule and the commission’s use of notices of penalty offense to serve as the basis for Section 5 settlements.
At one year, TikTok Shop conjures the early days of Amazon, representing the ‘Wild West’ of beauty ecommerce, said co-founders of private label and contract manufacturing company KO-Pack at the IBA Cosmetics Convergence Fall 2024 Virtual Symposium, “The Promise and Pitfalls of TikTok Shop.”
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Market growth and product innovations are continuing as FDA looks to Congress for authorization to establish regulatory pathway agency says it needs to determine whether to allow hemp-derived ingredients in food, dietary supplements and non-drug topicals including cosmetics.
Four co-chairs of the House of Representatives’ Skin Cancer Caucus have introduced the Safe Sunscreen Standards Act to direct FDA to establish clearer, ‘more flexible’ standards for evaluating sunscreen ingredients.
Consumer health player PharmaSGP will be taken private by its biggest shareholder, FUTRUE.
