These quick updates were provided to PPAI’s Product Responsibility Action Group during its February meeting by Karolyn Helda, QIMA, and Rick Brenner, Product Safety Advisors:United StatesA Connecticut law requiring labels that clearly discl...

PPAI has brought back a scholarship that will help one member of a regional association attend a PPAI event this year.The scholarship is open to all PPAI members who are also members of their local regional association.“Scholarships w...

If you’re like many promo pros, you’ve probably had some good ideas get passed over in meetings. Not because your ideas aren’t good, but because they may feel risky or inconvenient to people hearing them. In sales, this matters more than you’d like ...

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Despite challenges in the courts and in Congress, tariffs remain a core element of President Donald Trump’s administrative approach. The president continues to view tariffs as a primary policy driver, and the administration has touted over $200 bill...

The Environmental Protection Agency has repealed a landmark ruling that dates back 17 years and had asserted that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health. This 2009 "endangerment finding" was an underpinning of the "C...

iCoStore (PPAI 372689, Gold), PPAI 100’s No. 45 distributor, has announced its acquisition of Houston-based distributor CCI (PPAI 196501, Standard-Base).Through the acquisition, iCoStore expands its company-store platform, on-demand decoration c...

UPDATED Feb. 16, 2026On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump officially invoked a national emergency under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, citing persistent U.S. trade deficits and associated economic impacts as justification t...

A significant change has been made to the requirements allowing companies to promote their products as containing "no artificial colors." The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has essentially loosened the ability of companies to make such claims. No...