“The rule would capture misrepresentations regarding the underlying product or service wholly unrelated to the negative option feature,” says Christine Wilson in dissenting statement on FTC’s notice of proposed rulemaking.
Federal Trade Commission enforcement under a proposed update to its Negative Option Rule for marketers extends “far beyond” the targeted type of abuses and could be used to impose civil penalties for product efficacy claims, says the commission’s recently retired Republican appointee.
“The rule would capture misrepresentations regarding the underlying product or service wholly unrelated to the negative option feature,” Christine Wilson wrote in a
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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Deal totaling as much as $880m extends C&D into additional product category with a brand it says is the fastest growing in the US hand sanitizer category and No. 2 brand in the category overall.
Beauty and personal care companies are struggling with compliance with state Extended Producer Responsibility laws, given the outstanding number of stakeholders that have still not registered products with Oregon’s EPR law, the first to go into effect.
UK-based Venture Life is divesting its CDMO business and some non-core products to focus its attention on growing its consumer health operation.
