National Funeral Directors Association (NFDA)
Brookfield WI
For Immediate Release: May 21, 2012
The [CBS] 60 Minutes story reinforces NFDA’s long-held position that the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) Funeral Rule, a federal consumer protection regulation that all funeral homes must abide by, should be revised and updated so that key consumer protection elements also apply to cemeteries, crematories and all third-party sellers of funeral or burial goods and services. To that end, NFDA supports Rep. Bobby Rush’s (D-IL) legislative efforts to direct the FTC to adopt regulations that would govern other providers of deathcare goods and services.
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