DATES: The public roundtable will be held on March 28, 2014, from 9:15 a.m. until 3:45 p.m., at the FTC's Satellite Building Conference Center, located at 601 New Jersey Avenue NW., Washington, DC.
II. Issues for Discussion at the Roundtable
The roundtable will focus on the proposed amendment permitting a wetcleaning instruction and comments urging the Commission to require a wetcleaning instruction. The wetcleaning discussion also will address: (1) The cost of substantiating wetcleaning instructions; (2) The availability of wetcleaning services; (3) Consumer awareness of wetcleaning; and (4) The content of labels providing a wetcleaning instruction (e.g., instructing "professionally wetclean" versus "wetclean").
The roundtable also will explore issues relating to the use of care symbols and the Commission's proposal to clarify the Rule's reasonable basis requirements. These discussions will address: (1) The differences between ASTM and ISO symbols and between the 2005 and 2012 ISO symbols; (2) Whether to require that labels identify ISO symbols if used to comply with the Rule; (3) The change in the meaning of the circle P symbol in the ASTM system; (4) The absence of ASTM and ISO symbols for solvents other than perchloroethylene ("perc") and petroleum; (5) Consumer understanding of symbols; and (6) How to clarify the Rule's reasonable basis requirements. In addition, the roundtable will provide participants with an opportunity to discuss other issues raised by comments. A more detailed agenda will be published at a later date, in advance of the scheduled roundtable. In the interim, the Commission is particularly interested in receiving relevant consumer perception evidence.
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