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Cannabis Counsel Cast: What Cannabis Companies Need to Know About Californiaâs Prop. 65 (Even if They Arenât in California)
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In a decision building on a string of recent industry wins, a federal district court granted a permanent injunction, which extended an earlier issued preliminary injunction, prohibiting the filing of new lawsuits to enforce...more
Today's marketplace is a crowded space, with products and services facing intense competition for customer attention and spending. Shelves are filled with new and improved products, consumer attention is fragmented across...more
If your business manufactures, distributes or supplies consumer products sold in California, you are likely familiar with California Proposition 65, which requires warnings on products that may expose consumers to chemicals...more
A Northern District of California judge issued a sweeping dismissal of a microplastics class action that would have lowered the bar on the sufficiency of allegations of potential hazards from microplastics....more
On May 7, 2025, the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois issued a significant decision in Daly v. The Wonderful Company LLC, No. 24 C 1267 (N.D. Ill.). The court dismissed with prejudice a putative class...more
The composition of FDA-regulated products is coming under increasing scrutiny from FDA, state governments, consumer watchdog groups, and the plaintiffâs bar. ...more
Rascals advertises that the Hydrolock Core in its diapers ââholds up to 25 x its weightâ and ââabsorbs 15 x its weight.â P&G thought that claim was full of crap and filed a challenge before the NAD, arguing that Rascals...more
A recent jury decision in Banks et al. v. R.C. Bigelow, Inc., et al., Case No. 2:20-cv-06208, in the Central District of California may serve to embolden more consumer class action filings in the Golden State over domestic...more
Itâs time for my favorite time of the year, when all the Valentineâs Day candy goes on sale! In honor of this sugary sweet clearance sale, I wanted to recap some of our favorite NAD chocolate cases. So whether you like milk...more
The Learned Concierge - Welcome to your monthly legal insights on the trends impacting the Retail, Hospitality, and Food & Beverage Industries....more
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...more
The Regulations Amending Certain Regulations Concerning the Disclosure of Cosmetic Ingredients (SOR/2024-63) (the âAmended Cosmetic Regulations), published on April 24, 2024, took effect on October 9th (with the exception of...more
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced that it is expanding its Recommendations of Specifications, Standards, and Ecolabels for Federal Purchasing Program (Recommendations Program) to include new...more
What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - Microplastics, as a seemingly ubiquitous contaminant, have increasingly become the subject of online exposés and class action challenges. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...more
Many consumer packaged goods (CPG) companiesâ contract with other companies to manufacture goods sold under the CPG companiesâ label or brand. These arrangements are called âco-manufacturingâ or âcontract manufacturing.â...more
Longtime efforts by the California Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to amend the so-called âshort-formâ safe harbor warnings for Californiaâs Proposition 65 appear to be nearing completion. On 13 June...more
How reasonable does a consumer have to be before theyâre âunambiguouslyâ deceived? Our Food & Beverage Team reads the tea leaves to discover how courts in the Ninth Circuit are applying the new McGinity standard....more
With Gov. Jared Polisâ signature on SB 81, Colorado has broadened its restrictions on products containing intentionally added per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (âPFASâ) to include a wide range of consumer products. Colorado...more
What You Need To Know In A Minute Or Less - For both consumers and producers, the recent seismic shifts in packagingâfrom materials to circularity advertisingâhave been hard to miss. The past few years have introduced several...more
Originally published in Healthcare Michigan, Volume 41, No. 4 - The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulates foods and beverages, drugs and medical devices, biologics, dietary supplements, tobacco products, veterinary...more
As of May 2022, Monsanto, the company that developed the allegedly cancer-causing weed killer Roundup, has settled more than 100,000 lawsuits, and paid nearly $11 billion in settlements. Despite this massive number, 30,000...more
Two thousand twenty-three was no exception to the trend of recent years in the ever-increasing issuance of private enforcer-led Proposition 65 60-Day Notices of Violation (âNoticesâ) to businesses allegedly selling consumer,...more
Proposition 65: Quarterly Highlights (October 2023) - Downey Brandâs latest roundup of Proposition 65 Notices of Violation (âNoticesâ) summarizes Notices filed in the third quarter of 2023. Citizen plaintiff groups filed one...more
Our Environment, Land Use & Natural Resources Group explains proposed changes to Californiaâs Proposition 65 safe harbor warning language....more
As general awareness of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (âPFASâ) has continued to rise in recent years, courts have experienced an increase in civil lawsuits alleging false and misleading advertising in corporate...more