News & Analysis as of

Labeling Retailers

BakerHostetler

New State Laws Limiting the Use of PFAS in Consumer Products Continue to Proliferate

BakerHostetler on

Over the past few years, the regulation of per- or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in consumer products has exploded. While manufacturers, distributors, and retailers have focused on significant new consumer product PFAS...more

American Conference Institute (ACI)

[Event] 12th Annual Forum on Dietary Supplements - June 25th - 26th, New York, NY

ACI and CRN are excited to welcome you back to New York City this Spring for our 12th Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements. Network and collaborate with over 150 industry stakeholders to explore how...more

Lerman Senter PLLC

FCC Requires Consumer Broadband Labels for ISPs

Lerman Senter PLLC on

The FCC will require fixed and mobile internet service providers (ISPs) to prominently display information about their internet service access plans in the form of consumer labels that resemble food nutrition labels. The...more

Dechert LLP

Not Prescription, Not Merely Over the Counter: FDA Proposes a Novel Category of Drugs

Dechert LLP on

In June of this year, FDA announced a proposed rule that would permit approval for nonprescription drug products with an Additional Condition for Nonprescription Use—a category of nonprescription drugs where FDA determines...more

BakerHostetler

Bamboozling - Part I: Do Green Claims Require a Life Cycle Analysis?

BakerHostetler on

The title of this series is an homage to the great Lesley Fair, who launched and authors many of the best of the FTC’s business blogs and who coined this term in her blog reviewing 2013 cases on the same topic. But we are...more

Hogan Lovells

Welcome to the Holiday Guide 2021

Hogan Lovells on

The holiday shopping season is upon us once again and this year, as last, continues to present challenges for consumer companies and retailers. Omnichannel is growing in prominence as consumers maintain their reliance on...more

Tonkon Torp LLP

Plan Ahead For Increase In THC Package Limits

Tonkon Torp LLP on

Starting in January 2022, the amount of THC allowable in edibles sold through a retail store will raise to 100 mg of THC per package, which is double the previous per-package limit of 50 mg. This is great news for consumers...more

Vicente LLP

New Hemp CBD Laws, Regulations, And Policies: June 2021 Update

Vicente LLP on

Over the first half of 2021, many states passed laws, implemented, or proposed new regulations regarding hemp cultivation, processing, and CBD products. These changes range from updates to testing, labeling, and packaging...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

New York Bans Delta-8/Revises Hemp Regulations

New York, which only recently passed an ambitious adult-use cannabis bill, has also positioned itself as a leader in the field of hemp cannabinoid products, and just today, May 19, 2021, updated its regulations and standards...more

Harris Beach PLLC

More CBD Certainty: Clearing Confusion over Hemp in New York State

Harris Beach PLLC on

This fall, New York state released long-awaited proposed regulations for the hemp industry that shed light on legal issues related to growing, testing, labeling and retailing hemp and its extracts such as CBD. In this...more

Foley Hoag LLP - Cannabis and the Law

Massachusetts Regulators Seek Input on Regulatory Changes for Both Adult Use and Medical Marijuana

The Massachusetts Cannabis Control Commission has published an ambitious regulatory update of both adult use regulations at 935 CMR 500.000, medical marijuana establishment regulations at 935 CMR 501.000, and co-located...more

Alston & Bird

Food & Beverage Digest - December 2019

Alston & Bird on

Welcome to the latest edition of the Food & Beverage Digest, our roundup of court cases and settlements affecting the agribusiness, food, beverage, and cosmetics industry. Take a spin through 10 key items from 2019, some...more

Seyfarth Shaw LLP

“Monroney Stickers” And Protecting Car Buyers From Fraud In The Age Of Online Motor Vehicle Sales

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on

When Congress adopted legislation in 1958 requiring that manufacturers affix a label—today called a “Monroney sticker”—in the window of each new motor vehicle they produced showing the suggested retail price for the vehicle...more

Mintz - Health Care Viewpoints

Hefty Fine is a Reminder of FCC’s Purview Over Certain Personal Hygiene and Wellness Devices

Do you manufacture, import, or market personal hygiene and wellness devices sold in drugstores? If so, you may be focused on U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) compliance, but may not have considered the requirements of...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Podcast: False Advertising Claims and Consumer Class Actions

In this episode, Neal Marder, who heads Akin Gump’s consumer class action litigation practice from the firm’s Los Angeles office, discusses how false advertising claims are driving consumer class actions. Among the topics...more

Cozen O'Connor

Ninth Circuit Brings Clarity To Made In The USA Labeling

Cozen O'Connor on

Thanks to the California legislature and the Ninth Circuit’s recent unpublished opinion in Fitzpatrick v. Tyson Foods, food manufacturers and distributors in California can label their products “Made in the USA,” even if the...more

Cozen O'Connor

The Legality of Cannabidiol and Concerns Regarding False Advertising

Cozen O'Connor on

The legality of marijuana (also known as cannabis) has been a popular topic in recent years with thirty states and the District of Columbia having laws that legalize marijuana in some form. However, under federal law,...more

Perkins Coie

Top Advertising Law Enforcement Trends for the New Year

Perkins Coie on

This holiday season, brands are ready for bustling sales, special offers and joyful consumers. However, with regulators on the lookout for deceptive practices and plaintiffs’ attorneys ready to file class actions, the...more

BCLP

No Common Sense – Today’s Cost of Doing Business

BCLP on

What is a retailer to do? The world today is filled with people assuming they are being disrespected and believing they are being defrauded. It’s not just that some customers can be surly and demanding when they are in your...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

Governor Brown signs bill returning California to mainstream on “Made in USA” labeling and providing a potential avenue to end...

A bill signed last week by California Governor Jerry Brown gives manufacturers and retailers a good argument that pending litigation over “Made in USA” labeling should be dead in its tracks. That is the key takeaway from the...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

California Joins rest of Country in “Made in USA” Rules

California, the beacon of individualism and often marching to its own set of rules, has joined the rest of the country as Gov. Jerry Brown has signed SB 633 which revises California’s take on what constitutes “Made in USA”....more

Baker Donelson

A Gathering Storm in the Dietary Supplement World

Baker Donelson on

This past February, the New York State Attorney General's office accused four major retailers of selling fraudulent and possibly dangerous herbal supplements and demanded that they remove the products from their shelves. The...more

Polsinelli

Polsinelli Podcasts - The Latest on a Shift in Regulation in Dietary Supplements

Polsinelli on

The FDA provides oversight of dietary supplements. Recently, the New York Attorney General's Office sent cease and desist letters to four major national retailers accusing them of selling dietary supplements that failed to...more

Mintz - Consumer Product Safety Viewpoints

A Clean Slate? California Bill Is Latest Attempt to Legislate Labeling Requirements for Cleaning Products

Another potentially meaningful development in legislation affecting consumer products companies: on February 25, a California legislator introduced a bill, AB 708, that would require manufacturers, distributors and retailers...more

Proskauer - Advertising Law

Made in the USA?: Suit Against Nordstorm Alleging Misleading Jeans Labels May Proceed

How much of a product has to be “Made in the USA” for a company to label it as such, and who gets to decide? Those questions are raised by an ongoing action lawsuit before a federal court in the Southern District of...more

28 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide