Going into the Thanksgiving holiday, neither the Breast Cancer Fund, which heads up the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, nor the Environmental Working Group had a statement to offer on the Cosmetics Safety Modernization Act, newly introduced in the US House. However, the bill is modeled after 2012 legislation that CSC called a "Trojan Horse" that would enable the existing regulatory system to stay largely in place.
The NGO community has yet to weigh in on the Cosmetics Safety Modernization Act, but it's fairly safe to expect a cold reception, if not a more vehement backlash, from the sector.
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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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AESGP, MedTech Europe and other associations representing medtech companies including manufacturers of self-care devices call for such products to be included in European Commission proposals for “zero-for-zero” trade in industrial goods between Europe and the US.
Firms in the US facing tariff costs should identify US-based, non-tariff sources and lobby local government officials and DC when foreign-sourced ingredients cannot be substituted in the US.
Petros will incorporate into its platform an analytics firm’s automated document capture and authentication system leveraging its global ID library to verify identity and eligibility of consumers accessing the self-selection process for an ACNU switch.
