Sentences with phrase «consumers about the risks»

The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau cautions consumers about the risks of investing in Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies.

On Monday, three top European Union regulators issued a warning to consumers about the risks associated with buying cryptocurrencies.

On September 12, 2017, the United Kingdom's Financial Conduct Authority issued a warning to consumers about the risks associated with investing in token offerings (ICOs).

The CFPB first highlighted the practice in 2012, but its spread throughout the industry and the lengthening list of consumer complaints prompted regulators to warn consumers about its risks and offer sample letters they could send to lenders to stave off financial ruin.

Failure to adequately warn consumers about the risks associated with use of their drugs is viewed to be negligent and grounds for legal action.

One type of defect is the failure to warn consumers about risks involved in using the product.

In addition to the failure of Bayer to adequately warn physicians and consumers about the risks associated with its drug, the FDA claims that the manufacturer also made misleading claims about the associated risks.

«The recent statement by NASAA warning consumers about the risk of investing in initial coin offerings and recognition by the SEC that they support the statement is indicative of increasing interest by regulators in the ICO space.

It worked with the Center for Responsible Lending to warn consumers about the risks of using alternative loan products and lobbied Congress to pass a temporary home buyer tax credit to help sustain sales.

Not exact matches

Despite early signs that a fast - food diet is no healthier in Beijing than it is in Boston, consumers who are new to middle - class dining seem less concerned about the health risks of the high - fat, high - sodium fare that many Americans now seek to avoid.

Wojcicki says, almost evangelically, that she wants 23andMe's consumers to own their data — and to have the information they need about any potential genetic risks to act.

That leaves consumers who are inundated with cancer warnings at a loss about to how to reduce their risk.

Industrial production fell 3.7 % in May and with consumer prices rising just 0.5 % in June, concerns about deflation risks in France are increasing.

«With the Sodium Mandate, the Board has required the disclosure of just enough inaccurate and controversial information about sodium in certain food items to cause far reaching negative consequences rather than help consumers and reduce public health risks.»

They include IBM, which is helping urban high schools close the STEM skills gap, and 23andMe, which is empowering consumers to learn about their genetic risks — and the lifestyle choices they can make, in some cases, to lower them.

Until practices or policies change, however, consumers would be wise to educate themselves about the privacy and security risks associated with «always on» devices in the home, from Google Homes and Amazon Echoes to smart televisions.

Even if we assume that Honest Co. had no intent to deceive consumers with its detergent, blithe assumptions about suppliers» actions put reputations at risk.

Pepsi executives concede that aspartame has fallen out of favor with some consumers amid concerns about potential health risks — and that's hurting sales.

While regional differences reveal a mix of threats that concern CEOs, they share a common increasing worry about broader societal developments — geopolitical uncertainty, terrorism, and climate change — rather than direct business risks such as changing consumer behaviour or new market entrants.

By producing and disseminating consumer education materials about the risks of pension advances, CFPB has taken an important step to inform consumers, and thereby potentially mitigate the exploitation of consumers.

Consumers needed to be told clearly about risks in the virtual currency, such as the fact that transactions are generally irreversible, and that they could lose their money if they hold onto bitcoins for an extended period.

The agency is looking at several payday lending practices, and Director Richard Cordray said at an advisory board meeting last month, «One of our priorities is to make sure consumers who are deciding whether or not to take out a payday loan are presented with clear information about the risks and costs associated with that loan.»

Now, my understanding of your position is that you made that original prediction based on the belief that the PRC would be instituting reforms to deleverage aggressively and transfer wealth to the consumer (such that the incorrect prediction was more that you were overly optimistic about the PRC's willingness to head off these systematic risks) and that your current prognosis of ~ 3 % GDP growth has an entirely separate causative element; that is to say, your previous prediction was based on the idea the PRC would be enacting reforms to ward off systematic risks, whereas your current estimation of GDP growth is instead based on the drag produced by these very systematic risks the PRC has failed to deal with.

And given some of the headwinds you cited for millennial consumers and their acceptance of traditional watches and embracing digital ones, how we should think about the risk to your traditional watch sales for next year.

The report found that many consumers would benefit from more and clearer information about how readvanceable mortgages work, the applicable fees, terms and conditions, and the risks potentially involved.

The other side of the cryptocurrency coin that Mnuchin worries about is the speculation tied to cryptocurrency trading, which he suggested puts consumers at risk.

But given the complexity of the business processes involved, and corporate concerns about cybercrime and risk, the digital transformation of corporate treasury and cash management has not moved at the same pace as in the consumer banking space, where the advent of peer - to - peer lending and instant payments via mobile and other «smart» devices is rapidly transforming how consumers interact with financial services.

FAIR Canada encourages consumers to inform themselves about the risks of leverage and we urge Canadians to avoid borrowing to invest unless they fully understand all the risks.

However, likely due to recent shocks in the economy, the Indian government may be changing its approach to virtual currencies, from merely issuing warnings to consumers about potential risks to proactively reviewing virtual currencies to tackle the risks they pose.

It appears so after several state departments have issued consumer alerts warning individuals about the risks posed by peer - to - peer decentralized digital currencies like bitcoin.

The jury may be out still on whether trace amounts of the popular herbicide glyphosate pose health risks to humans, but industry insiders predict mounting consumer fear about the possibility will pressure more food and beverage manufacturers in 2018 to...

So there is no other way to caution consumers about the health risks associated with sugar - sweetened beverages other than taxing those who more than likely can't afford to be taxed any further?

However, the future of craft drinks labelling is a heated topic of debate between those in the industry and health campaigners, who say that packaging should be aimed towards consumer safety with minimal design and information about the risks of drinking.

Current best practice for consumer safety in drinks labelling is to include warnings about the risks of drinking while pregnant, the chief medical officer's guidelines about responsible consumption and the product's alcohol content.

As food supply chains are becoming increasingly more complex, food businesses are constantly challenged about the way they mitigate risks to deliver safe and nutritious food to the consumer.

USDA, through the Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), educates consumers about the importance of safe food storage as a means of reducing the risks of acquiring a foodborne illness.

Consumers use such products without knowing about the risks they're assuming with chemical exposure.

«I think the alert was very appropriate... it gave information to consumers about the hazards associated with sling carriers particularly the risks associated with very young infants who can suffocate.»

While many uses pose no risk to consumers, some scientists have worried about the health effects of ingesting low doses of the chemical, which is used in the linings of canned foods as well as bottles and food storage products.

In Hypnobabies, our objectives are to help our pregnant couples bond with their baby in utero, teach you how to stay healthy and low - risk and be an excellent consumer, trust in your body, mind and baby, as well as become self - reliant and confident about birthing your own way; safely and * in much more physical comfort *.

Their aim is to ensure that food produced or sold in the UK is safe to eat, consumers have the information they need to make informed choices about where and what they eat, and that regulation and enforcement is risk - based and focused on improving public health.

When marijuana is legal but heroin is not, and authorities are honest about the relative risks, marijuana consumers are less likely to wish to attempt heroin, and even if they do, it will be more difficult to get by (because marijuana sellers won't be stocking heroin).

Commenting on the new report that provides documented evidence of how the alcohol industry is misleading the public about the risks associated with alcohol and cancer, Institute of Alcohol Studies Chief Executive Katherine Brown said: «This report shows that, like the tobacco industry before them, alcohol companies are misleading consumers about the evidence linking their products to cancer.

«The marketing objective of selling services by making them seem attractive to consumers can create tensions or outright conflict with the ethical imperative of respect for persons, since the latter requires that patients make medical decisions in light of balanced information about the full range of risks and benefits associated with their care,» said London, professor of philosophy in CMU's Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences and director of the Center for Ethics and Policy.

But a science panel of the European Commission that reviewed existing data about D4 concluded in 2006 that it was «unable to assess the risk to consumers when D4 is used in cosmetic products.»

Such scaremongering is especially painful to me because even though I do not think that government - approved GMO foods pose meaningful health risks to consumers, and even though I believe strategic genetic engineering can be an important tool to ease human suffering on our warming and resource - constrained planet, I share the concerns of many environmentalists about the homogenization and consolidation of the global food system — trends that are accelerated by the spread of industrially produced GMOs.

A subset of these tests, called «nutragenic» DNA tests, claim to provide consumers with information about diseases for which they're supposedly at risk as well as, in some cases, dietary advice — such as pills sold by the company — that may counter the hazard.

The Organic Consumers Association is concerned about health risks and commodity price manipulation by corporate giants such as Monsanto.

According to Evans and colleagues, their findings suggest the decision to overturn the FDA's rule based on these grounds was wrong; the team says the graphic images do not «browbeat» consumers, and though they do evoke emotion in smokers, the researchers say these emotions make people think more carefully about the health risks of smoking.

They do provide fodder for researchers digging deeper into the connections between meat and disease risk, as well as for consumers thinking about making more meatless choices.