Company: PCRX
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001396814-25-000041
Chunk: 241

Company: Pacira BioSciences, Inc.
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
Chunk 241
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 requirements or investor, customer, consumer, employee or other stakeholders’ evolving expectations and standards for responsible corporate citizenship in areas including environmental stewardship, support for local communities, board of director and employee diversity, human capital management, employee health and safety practices, product quality, supply chain management, corporate governance and transparency, our reputation, brand and employee retention may be negatively impacted, and our customers and suppliers may be unwilling to continue to do business with us.

From time to time, we communicate certain CSR initiatives and goals to market participants and our customers and business partners. Any corporate responsibility disclosure we make may include our policies, practices, initiatives and goals on a variety of social and ethical matters, corporate governance, environmental compliance, sustainability, employee health and safety practices, human capital management, product quality, supply chain management and workforce inclusion and diversity. Although we have undertaken significant efforts to improve and implement our CSR initiatives, it is possible that the aforementioned parties may not be satisfied with such disclosures, our CSR practices or the speed with which we adopt, implement and/or disclose our plans. Furthermore, some stakeholders may disagree with our goals and there is also a risk that stakeholders may change their views on these topics over time. Our various stakeholders or regulators may also have divergent opinions on these types of matters as well as conflicting expectations regarding our culture, values, goals and business, which 

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makes it difficult to achieve a consistently positive perception amongst all of our various stakeholders. Moreover, we may determine that it is in the best interest of our Company and our stockholders to prioritize other business, social, governance or sustainable investments over the achievement of our current goals based on economic, technological developments, regulatory and social factors, business strategy or pressure from investors, activists or other stakeholders.

If our CSR practices do not meet investor or other stakeholder expectations and standards, which continue to evolve, or if we are perceived or deemed to have not appropriately responded to the growing concern for CSR issues, regardless of whether there is a legal requirement to do so, we may suffer from reputational damage from stakeholders and consumers and our business and financial condition could be materially and adversely affected. We may also incur additional costs or require additional resources to monitor such stakeholder expectations and standards and to meet our targets and commitments.

Significant changes in the global climate, extreme weather conditions, water availability and other climate related risks could adversely affect our business or operations.

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