Under an agreement with the Federal Trade Commission, wipes manufacturer Nice-Pak Products, which produces wipes under Costco, CVS and Target private labels, has agreed to stop advertising moist toilet tissue as “flushable.” According to a statement released by the FTC on May 18, Nice-Pak may not advertise the wipes as safe for sewer and septic tanks unless it has substantiation for those claims.“The evidence didn’t back up Nice-Pak’s claims that their wipes were safe to flush,” says Jessica Rich, director of the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “If you claim a product is flushable, it needs to flush in the
