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Article: Animal Fur Must Be Declared On Label Under New Delaware Consumer Protection Law
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- US Fed News Service, Including US State News
- Article date:
- July 3, 2008
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The Humane Society issued the following news release:
The Humane Society of the United States applauds the Delaware General Assembly and Gov. Ruth Ann Minner for signing into law today legislation requiring all garments made with animal fur to say so on the label, closing a loophole. The measure, H.B. 216, sponsored by Rep. Melanie George Marshall (D-5) and Sen. Margaret Rose Henry (D-2), passed unanimously in the Senate, and goes into effect on June 1, 2010. New York passed similar legislation last year in the wake of HSUS investigations demonstrating false advertising of unlabeled jackets by well-known retailers.
An ongoing investigation by The HSUS found unlabeled jackets falsely ...