Company: CODI-PB
Filing Date: 2025-12-08
Form Type: 10-K/A
Source: 0001345126-25-000078
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Company: Compass Diversified Holdings
Filing Date: 2025-12-08
Form: 10-K/A
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 of their consumer community, incorporates extensive 360-degree consumer research (including whitespace consumer studies), and most importantly, focuses on bringing products to market that address the long-term holistic health of all humans. The company formulates products in collaboration with industry experts and suppliers to ensure that the products strictly adhere to their brand standards of high quality and efficacy and with their retail partners to ensure that the products will resonate with shoppers. The company then clinically tests their formulations (to ensure compliance with regulatory standards) to confirm that the products are safe and efficacious. Lastly, the company validates their supply chain to ensure they can properly manufacture each product in the short and long term without disruption or quality compromises.

New product development is underpinned by the company’s mission to create products that work together to create a holistic wellness routine and that address previously unmet and unacknowledged human needs. The company continues to develop innovations in its core categories as well as adjacent categories where their brand equity gives them permission to play.

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#### Regulatory Environment
The Honey Pot Co. markets and distributes various feminine hygiene and consumer care products in the United States and Canada, including nonprescription medical devices, over the counter (“OTC”) drug products, dietary supplements, and cosmetics, which are subject to regulation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) as well as the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”). As such, the company is governed by various laws and acts, including the Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act (“FDCA”), the Fair Packaging and Labeling Act (“FPLA”), and The Modernization of Cosmetics Regulation Act (“MoCRA”).

The Honey Pot Co.’s products fall into five different FDA classifications. Menstrual pads and liners are classified as class I medical devices; lubricants, tampons and cups are classified as class II medical devices; anti-itch spray, anti-itch and Hemorrhoidal wipes are classified as OTC drug products, supplements are classified as dietary supplements, and feminine washes and wipes (excluding OTC wipes), deodorant sprays, suppositories, and body washes are classified as cosmetics.

Under the FDCA and its implementing regulations, The Honey Pot Co. is subject to requirements related to, among other things, facility registration, current good manufacturing practices (“cGMP”), product ingredients, nonclinical and clinical testing, complaint handling and adverse event reporting, product recalls, product labeling, marketing, and promotion. Advertising and promotion are also regulated by the FTC