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1 month ago | 
jdsupra.com | David Biderman |Kristine Kruger |Julia Martin
Perkins Coie Releases Ninth Annual Food & Consumer Packaged Goods Litigation Year in Review.
In 2024, class action filings against the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry reached a near high, with close to three hundred lawsuits filed. This year was notable for the wide variety of kind of claims at issue — natural, protein content, multi-function ingredients, packaging fill, and sustainability claims.
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2 months ago | 
jdsupra.com | David Biderman |Kristine Kruger |Natalie Sanders
We are pleased to share our Q4 Food and Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Legal Trends report. This report is a bite-size version of our annual year in review, providing timely insights on legal trends in the space.
In Q4 of 2024, the CPG industry continued to face a substantial threat of class-action activity, with continued filings against companies in the food, beverage, and personal care space.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
mondaq.com | Brian Sylvester |Kristine Kruger
On December 27, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration(FDA) published a proposed rule under Modernization of CosmeticsRegulation Act (MoCRA) to require manufacturers to (1) testtalc-containing cosmetic products or any talc ingredient used forthe presence of asbestos and (2) maintain certain recordsregarding this testing. Comments are due to the agency by March 27,2025. This is the first proposed rule that the agency has published aspart of its implementation of MoCRA.
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Nov 27, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Jasmine Wetherell |Kristine Kruger
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | David Biderman |Kristine Kruger |Natalie Sanders
Perkins Coie is pleased to publish its Q3 Food and CPG Legal Trends Report.
This report is a bite-size version of our annual year in review, providing timely insights on trends. In the third quarter of 2024, the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry continued to face a meaningful threat of class-action activity, with continued filings against companies in the food, beverage, and personal care space.
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Nov 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | David Biderman |Kristine Kruger |Natalie Sanders
We are pleased to share our Q3 Food & Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) Legal Trends report. This report is a bite-size version of our annual year in review, providing timely insights on legal trends in the space.
In Q4 of 2024, the CPG industry continued to face a substantial threat of class-action activity, with continued filings against companies in the food, beverage, and personal care space.
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Oct 17, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kristine Kruger |Jasmine Wetherell
As the holiday season begins, California is committing to a greener future by introducing the nation's first extended producer responsibility (EPR) program for apparel and textiles. California’s Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 (SB 707), signed into law on September 28, 2024, is intended to divert postconsumer apparel and textile articles from landfills to be (1) reused, repaired, and recycled into secondary products or (2) disposed of in an environmentally safe manner.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Kristine Kruger |Sichang Chen
As environmental consciousness grows, so too do regulations aimed at promoting a more circular economy. Within the last few years, the United States has seen a significant increase in extended producer responsibility (EPR) legislation across various product categories. These new state laws place a greater responsibility on producers for the collection, recycling, and end-of-life management of their products.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | David Biderman |Kristine Kruger |Natalie Sanders
PERKINS COIE IS PLEASED TO PUBLISH ITS MIDYEAR FOOD AND CPG LEGAL TRENDS REPORT.
This report is a bite-size version of our annual year in review, providing timely insights on trends so far this year. In the first half of 2024, the Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) industry continued to face a meaningful threat of class-action activity, with continued filings against companies in the food, beverage, and personal care space.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
law360.com | Jasmine Wetherell |Kristine Kruger |Thomas Tobin
ADVERTISEMENT Don't want ads? Subscribe or login now. By Jasmine Wetherell, Kristine Kruger and Thomas Tobin (March 26, 2024, 5:45 PM EDT) -- The U.S. leads the world in per capita municipal solid waste — i.e., trash — production,[1] with Americans producing over 250 million tons of trash annually, or approximately 4.5 pounds per American every day.[2]...
