This edition of Greenberg Traurig’s Consumer Compass highlights the pivotal shifts and emerging trends impacting the consumer products industry. Inside, we provide timely legal updates, strategic insights, and essential developments—curated to help empower business decisions and keep stakeholders informed in a rapidly changing market. Go North for regulatory updates; East for emerging risks; South for
California Senate Bill (SB) 707, also known as the Responsible Textile Recovery Act of 2024 (Act), establishes an extended producer responsibly (EPR) program for apparel and textiles, the first such program directed at apparel and textiles in the United States.
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Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws continue to proliferate in the United States, presenting significant operational challenges for consumer packaged goods companies. Earlier in 2024, Minnesota became the sixth state to enact a broad packaging EPR law, joining California, Colorado, Maine, Oregon, and Maryland in the emerging trend of states imposing responsibility for end-of-life management for
On Jan. 1, 2019, a new law aiming to limit children’s intake of sugary beverages became effective. California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the “Children’s Meals” law on Sept. 20, 2018, in an effort to combat the rising obesity rate in California, which increased 250 percent between 1990 and 2016. The Children’s Meals law modifies the