Pending Calif. Consumer Products Reg Inconsistent, Unfair – Trade Groups
This article was originally published in The Tan Sheet
Executive Summary
The Personal Care Products Council and the Consumer Healthcare Products Association fault the latest and likely last draft of California’s Safer Consumer Products regs for its lack of a weight-of-evidence approach to decision making and inadequate trade-secret protections, among other shortcomings.
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