October Newsletter: Advocacy Releases "What's New With Small Business" Infographic
Small Business Administration (SBA) sent this bulletin at 10/17/2018 09:15 AM EDT
NJ, PA & NY Roundtable Recap
The call for help from America’s small businesses continued this month in Princeton, New Jersey, Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Poughkeepsie, New York, where the Office of Advocacy held Regional Regulatory Reform Roundtables to hear concerns of small business owners in those regions.
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Advocate Visits Puerto Rico
In August, Region 2 Advocate Christine Myers traveled to Puerto Rico. "I have visited Puerto Rico before on vacation, but, admittedly, I was focused on fun, sun and sightseeing. That was before Hurricanes Irma and Maria. This trip I came with a new set of eyes, and, suffice it to say, the trip was eye-opening."
NTIA is seeking public comments on a proposed approach to this task that lays out a set of user-centric privacy outcomes that underpin the protections that should be produced by any Federal actions on consumer-privacy policy, and a set of high-level goals that describe the outlines of the ecosystem that should be created to provide those protections.See the notice here.
On September 28, 2018, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published a request for comments on the labeling of plant-based products with names that include the names of dairy foods such as “milk,” “cultured milk,” “yogurt,” and “cheese.”
