8:00 Registration

9:15 Welcoming Remarks

9:20 Presentation

Professional Wetcleaning Issues

PRESENTER:

Peter Sinsheimer

Executive Director

UCLA Sustainable Technology & Policy Program

9:50 Presentation

Professional Wetcleaning Issues

PRESENTER:

Charles Riggs

Professor of Textiles and Professor of Chemistry

Texas Woman’s University

Agenda March 28, 2014

Care L beling Rule 

An FTC Roundtable
2

10:20 Discussion

Professional Wetcleaning

•	 The views expressed by the presenters

•	 Requiring versus permitting a wetcleaning instruction

•	 Cost of substantiating wetcleaning instructions

•	 Availability of wetcleaning

•	 Consumer awareness of wetcleaning

•	 Content of instruction (e.g., “professionally wetclean” versus “wetclean”)

MODERATOR:

Robert Frisby

Attorney

Division of Enforcement

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Federal Trade Commission

PARTICIPANTS:

Marie D’Avignon

Manager of Government Relations

American Apparel & Footwear

Association

Ann Hargrove

Director of Special Projects

National Cleaners Association

Adam Mansell

Consultant

UK Fashion & Textile Association

Paul Matthai

Senior Regulatory Analyst

Pollution Prevention Division

Office of Pollution Prevention and

Toxics

U. S. Environmental Protection

Agency

Julianna Y. Mo

Secretary

Professional Wetcleaners

Association

Joy Onasch

Community and Small Business

Program Manager

Toxics Use Reduction Institute

University of Massachusetts

Lowell

Charles Riggs

Professor of Textiles and Professor of 

Chemistry

Texas Woman’s University

Mary Scalco

Chief Executive Officer

Drycleaning & Laundry Institute

Peter Sinsheimer

Executive Director

UCLA Sustainable Technology &

Policy Program

11:50 Lunch
March 28, 2014

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1:00 Discussion

Care Symbols

•	 Differences between ASTM and ISO symbols (e.g., natural drying symbols)

•	 Whether to require that labels identify ISO symbols if used

•	 Differences between 2005 and 2012 ISO symbols

•	 Change in the meaning of the circle P symbol in ASTM system

•	 Absence of ASTM and ISO symbols for solvents other than perc and petroleum

•	 Consumer understanding of symbols

MODERATOR:

Amanda B. Kostner

Attorney

Division of Enforcement

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Federal Trade Commission

PARTICIPANTS:

Marie D’Avignon

Manager of Government Relations

American Apparel & Footwear

Association

Richard Fitzpatrick

Vice President

Kreussler Inc

Adam Mansell

Consultant

UK Fashion & Textile Association

Charles Riggs

Professor of Textiles and Professor

of Chemistry

Texas Woman’s University

Mary Scalco

Chief Executive Officer

Drycleaning & Laundry Institute

Peter Sinsheimer

Executive Director

UCLA Sustainable Technology & 

Policy Program

Stacy Sopcich

Executive Director of Strategic

Branding & Sustainability

GreenEarth Cleaning

Alan Spielvogel

Director of Technical Services

National Cleaners Association

2:15 Break
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2:30 Discussion

Reasonable Basis Requirements and Other Issues

•	 The Commission’s proposed amendment clarifying the Rule’s reasonable 

basis requirement

•	 GreenEarth Cleaning’s proposal to amend the Rule’s reasonable 

basis requirement

•	 Water temperature in home washing 

•	 Other issues of concern to commenters (e.g., leather care issues)

MODERATOR:

Frank Gorman

Assistant Director

Division of Enforcement

Bureau of Consumer Protection

Federal Trade Commission

PARTICIPANTS:

Augustine Chang

President

Professional Wetcleaners 

Association

Marie D’Avignon

Manager of Government Relations

American Apparel & Footwear 

Association

Richard Fitzpatrick

Vice President

Kreussler Inc

Adam Mansell

Consultant

UK Fashion & Textile Association

Seemanta Mitra

Senior Director of Textiles

Intertek North America, Softlines 

Nora Nealis

Executive Director

National Cleaners Association

Dart Poach

President

Don’s Leather Cleaning, Inc.

Professional Leather Cleaners 

Association

Mir A.A.R. Quddus 

Senior Engineer

Whirlpool Corporation, Advanced 

Fabric Care

American Association of Textile 

Chemists and Colorists

Charles Riggs

Professor of Textiles and 

Professor of Chemistry

Texas Woman’s University

Mary Scalco

Chief Executive Officer

Drycleaning & Laundry Institute

Peter Sinsheimer

Executive Director

UCLA Sustainable Technology & 

Policy Program

Stacy Sopcich

Executive Director of Strategic 

Branding & Sustainability

GreenEarth Cleaning

3:40 Closing Remarks