Regulatory & Compliance
Your label is a regulatory filing that happens to be printed in color. Every claim on it is a position you have taken with the FDA and the FTC.
Most brands learn what position they took when the warning letter arrives.
Or when a competitor's counsel writes first. Or when a retailer's compliance team flags the SKU three weeks before a category reset, and the reset happens without you.
We work at the front of that. Claims get reviewed before packaging goes to print, and your VP of Operations stops being the person who has to decide whether a claim is defensible.
Real Industry Insight
The regulatory floor moved under this category and a lot of brands have not caught up.
MoCRA brought facility registration, product listing, safety substantiation records, and adverse event reporting to cosmetics for the first time. If any SKU carries an SPF or an OTC drug claim, you are in the monograph system too, on a separate clock. Supplements and functional beverage sit under DSHEA and under an FTC that has raised what a health claim has to be able to prove.
The Endorsement Guides reach deeper into affiliate and influencer programs than most brands have updated for, and the Made in USA Labeling Rule carries civil penalties now.
None of that is exotic. It is the current baseline for a brand on a national shelf.
What We Handle
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Panel requirements, ingredient declarations, net contents, allergens, and the state-level additions that catch national brands
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Claims substantiation, influencer and affiliate disclosure, comparative advertising, and the review workflow that keeps campaigns moving without a legal bottleneck.
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Warning letter response, untitled letters, NAD challenges, and the corrective work that follows.
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Terms of sale, subscription and auto-renewal compliance, privacy policies, and consumer data obligations across states.
This is one function of an in-house legal department.
Our clients engage us across several.
