ISPA Responds to U.S. DOJ Request for Data on Burdensome Rules – Worldwide Sleep Merchandise Affiliation
The U.S. Division of Justice (DOJ) issued a Request for Data (RFI) on state legal guidelines and laws that will unduly burden interstate commerce, increase prices, or hurt markets. ISPA submitted public feedback that target state-by-state packaging labeling legal guidelines. In recent times, states have enacted laws, each underneath shopper safety and recycling acts, that may mandate state-specific labeling for shopper in addition to industrial packaging.
ISPA believes {that a} state-by-state patchwork of packaging labeling legal guidelines would create undue burdens on companies and financial hurt to each companies and the shoppers who use these merchandise every day. As an alternative, ISPA helps a uniform federal construction for recyclable, compostable, and reusable packaging claims, preempting particular person and inconsistent state legal guidelines.
ISPA anticipates that the Packaging and Claims Data Act (PACK Act) will probably be launched later this yr within the U.S. Congress. The PACK Act would create a uniform federal construction for when recyclable, compostable, and reusable claims could be made for packaging and would preempt state legal guidelines that try to inconsistently regulate these kind of claims.
Click on right here to learn ISPA’s public feedback.
