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Minimum Advertised Price Policies: What Manufacturers Need to Know

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Manufacturers often want to provide some direction over how resellers advertise and distribute their products, both to avoid conflicting incentives among resellers that could undermine the broader business strategy and to...more

McGuireWoods LLP

Retailers at Risk: FDA Issues Advisory on Recreational Nitrous Oxide Products

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On June 4, 2025, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a public advisory urging consumers not to inhale nitrous oxide (N2O) from commercial dispensers, including canisters, tanks and portable chargers. The advisory...more

K&L Gates LLP

COVID-19: Steps Product Manufacturers Can Take to Protect Their Brand as At-Risk Retailers Face Bankruptcy

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The economic fallout of COVID-19 is widespread and immense, and few businesses remain unscathed by fundamental changes to consumer spending. No industry may be more affected than traditional department stores and brick and...more

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC

COVID-19: Force Majeure in Manufacturing, Distribution, and Retail; and Food and Beverage

Companies in the manufacturing, distribution, and retail sector are analyzing how to best navigate these unprecedented times. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have worked to...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

Coronavirus: Impact on the Retail Industry

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Coronavirus Disease 2019 or “COVID-19” continues to dominate national and international discussion. News outlets in Boston, New York, London, Mumbai, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, and every other city and town in the world continue...more

Goulston & Storrs PC

An Unintended Interruption to the Global Supply Chain

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The current outbreak of COVID-19 (the coronoavirus) will be a test of the global supply chain’s strength in the face of unintended interruptions, and can be a lesson on building-in supply-chain contingency plans.  As a result...more

Gray Reed

Amazon Packages Bursting into Open Fires, Jack Frost Nipping at Your Nose…

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On December 26, Marty and Dave McFly were playing video games when, downstairs in the living room, the hoverboard that Marty had received for Christmas ignited. The fire quickly engulfed the Christmas tree and spread...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

Liability for Allegedly Unnecessary Product Recall?

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The conventional advice to manufacturers and retailers of consumer products when assessing a potential product safety issue is typically as follows: “When in doubt, report.” And while it is still generally good advice to err...more

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Bans Consumer Sales of Methylene Chloride Paint Removers, Seeks Comment on Program for Commercial Uses

On March 15, 2019, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a signed final rule that prohibits the manufacture (including import), processing, and distribution of methylene chloride for consumer paint and...more

Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Product Liability Issues of Today’s Direct Sales Industry

Anyone with a social media account has likely recently seen a friend start a side-hustle selling products to their network through a direct sales company. The direct sales industry has experienced a renaissance since the...more

Lewitt Hackman

Su-PERFLUO-us? More Chemicals Added to Prop 65 List

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Business owners manufacturing, buying, selling, or importing products in California already know about the state’s Prop 65 law. But do they also know every single chemical or substance that is on that list?...more

BCLP

California Proposition 65 Actions Expected to Target Furfuryl Alcohol in Food and Beverages

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The next wave of lawsuits involving California Proposition 65 and food products may allege exposure to furfuryl alcohol, a chemical commonly found in a wide variety of thermally processed foods and listed as a carcinogen...more

Perkins Coie

Palm Oil Supply Chain Abuses Reported by Amnesty International: Steps to Mitigate Legal Risk

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Amnesty International recently released a report alleging that supply chains for production of palm oil—a common ingredient in many consumer products—are tainted by forced and child labor. In the nearly 150-page report titled...more

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