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Author: Donna Maria
Donna Maria is an entrepreneur mentor, the founder and CEO of the Indie Business Network, and the host of the Indie Business Podcast and the Indie Business Retreat. She has been recognized as one of the most trusted voices for Makers and Creative Entrepreneurs. Her coaching and consulting enterprise trains thousands of new and evolving entrepreneurs every day.
One size does not fit all. It will be important for lawmakers to be aware of small business owners as new legislation comes before them that will have a direct impact on our businesses.
I applaud the PCPC for putting forth their proposal and look forward to working with other IBN members to make sure we are also heard from as this moves forward. What is most important is that the voices of reason are not drown out by the hysteria caused by the EWG and Campaign for Safe Cosmetics.
PCPC is making its members voices heard. I’m energized to be working with you to do the same for smaller companies. We must be the change we seek. Onward!
Thanks for breaking down those advocacy points. I hope Indie and PCPC can continue to find common ground. Small business is an important part of American culture and it would be a shame for small business to suffer at the hands of PCPC or CFSC.
Although I agree that one size does not fit all, the current FDA laws apply to large and small companies across the board and work very well. Most of what the PCPC is proposing is redundant and unnecessary since the laws already require products to list ingredients. How would registering those ingredients make a product safer?
Is the use of million/billion (sales volume) in this story consistent…?
Registration, so the logic goes, would make it easier for the FDA to know what ingredients are being used, and to easily send cosmetics companies using those ingredients “recall” notices if an ingredient has any kind of problem associated with it. That does not answer all of the registration questions, but that's their advocacy point, as I understand it, with regard to your specific question.
As we all now know from the Colorado experience, common ground exists. It is our responsibility to do what we can to find and leverage it.
I don't understand this question.
PCPC is serving its members well, yes, and many of its is members got their start in a kitchen somewhere. I'm sure business entities, both large and small, do not want to live in a nation where small businesses are an afterthought, and today's college graduates can't consider entrepreneurship and manufacturing in this country because lawmakers and policymakers did not consider it a priority to help pave the way for them to be successful.
We only have to look across the pond to see how (over) regulation has affected manufacturing and entrepreneurship. Every European product has to be sent to an independent laboratory for analysis and registration of formula is mandatory along with other requirements which add about 5K to the cost of a SINGLE product. I don't feel comfortable trusting that the PCPC is going to look out for little old me on this issue.
Sounds to me like it would make it easier for the FDA to “police” cosmetic companies and fine them for non-compliance in the event of a recall. Sorry, but I don't see how the PCPC logic would benefit consumers. It would just add layers of bureaucracy and red tape that will end up costing us all more money. Is there an extensive history of ingredient recall that would warrant this kind of legislation?