Notwithstanding widely voiced frustrations with FDA’s implementation of the Sunscreen Innovation Act, Environmental Working Group staff attorney Tina Sigurdson maintains the SIA is a success story, reflecting stakeholder collaborations that can serve as a model to emulate as legislative efforts to update FDA’s cosmetics program go forward.
Cosmetics stakeholders should see the Sunscreen Innovation Act as an example of how companies, public interest groups and legislators can come together to advance common interests, according to Environmental Working Group staff attorney Tina Sigurdson.
During a presentation at the American Conference Institute’s recent Legal, Regulatory and Compliance forum on Cosmetics, Sigurdson did not address...
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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In addition to impact from tariffs and executive suite changes, recent baggage for firms in the space include Perrigo divesting its branded Dermacosmetics business and Church & Dwight acquiring Touchland hand sanitizer brand.
Swedish probiotics player BioGaia is reaping the benefits of increased marketing investments and distribution in the US.
Concerns raised by two recent studies prompt UK researchers to argue for greater regulation with regards to direct-to-consumer test kits.
