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Quote: Originally Posted by Annushka The only thing I am still unsure of is the RN#. THis is what I understood from the ftc's site - you have to use your company's name exactly as it is used to do business, unless you use an RN# in which case you can use the name of your brand or the clothing line instead.

Yes.

Quote: Originally Posted by Annushka I think the purpose of all this is to make sure the consumer knows or has a way to track (with the RN#) the company selling the product.

I don't think it's the company selling the product that's important, but the company that made it (and therefore the conditions under which it was made). If you re-label goods with your RN you have to keep track of what you relabelled - ultimately the FTC want to be able to track it back to the source. That's my interpretation anyway.

Quote: Originally Posted by Annushka If I got this right than I have a feeling that if I want to use the name of the brand (and not the exact name of my company) than I have to get RN#. Because otherwise if I use the manufacturer's RN and only a brand name on the label than my company's name stays undisclosed. Do I have this right?

Honestly, I'm not 100% sure either. I always took this:

Quote: Originally Posted by FTC textile labels must identify either the company name or Registered Identification Number (RN) of the manufacturer, importer, or another firm marketing, distributing, or otherwise handling the product

...to mean that more or less anyone in the chain could be the company with the RN. So my interpretation (which may not be correct) is that you don't have to get an RN, but you certainly can if you want to. However I don't think it's completely unambiguous, and while I have done further reading in the past it's fading now

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