8 | Footwear Distributors and Retailers of America
to have greater insight into issues that im-
pact their business.
This has been especially important in
California with the emergence of Proposi-
tion 65, a state-enacted measure that hit the
apparel and footwear industries after imple-
mentation of a federal passed law known as
the Consumer Product Safety Improvement
Act. Passed in 2009, the federal law posed
strict guidelines for manufacturers regarding
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