Following the growing viability of meat substitutes such as plant-based meats and cultured meats, the Singapore Food Agency (SFA) has released an updated document detailing its requirements regarding the safety assessment of novel foods (“Safety Assessment Requirements”). This document is expected to be revised periodically as the novel food space evolves to facilitate industry safety assessments and maintain food safety standards.
In an advisory released on November 25 2020, the Singapore Medical Council (SMC) strongly cautioned medical practitioners against participating in online search engine optimisation platforms that make use of patient and feedback ratings, or buying packages from the same for the purpose of obtaining patient testimonials. Doing so may be construed as making or expressly agreeing to the use of patient testimonials in their advertising, in contravention of provisions under SMC’s Ethical Code and Ethical Guidelines (ECEG) and the Handbook of Medical Ethics (“Handbook”).
On 20 November 2020, the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) issued the draft Advisory Guidelines on Key Provisions of the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill (“Guidelines”).
We had summarized in our previous client alerts the changes proposed during the public consultation (“Consultation Paper”) on the Personal Data Protection (Amendment) Bill (“Bill”), as well as the salient differences between the Consultation Paper and the Bill that was introduced and read in the Singapore Parliament on 5 October 2020. The Bill has since been passed by Parliament on 2 November 2020 (“Act”).
For this client alert, we will focus on a few pertinent points that have been highlighted in the Guidelines.
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After being the subject of 90 customer complaints from January 2019 to 31 August 2020, three beauty salons have signed Voluntary Compliance Agreements (“VCAs”) with the Consumers Association of Singapore (“CASE”) where they admit, and resolve to cease carrying out aggressive or misleading practices.