--- title: Wet Wipes Company Rapped for 'Flushable' Claim description: The Federal Trade Commission just announced a settlement with moist toilet tissue producer Nice-Pak that prevents the company from continuing to claim its products are actually flushable, at least until it proves those claims through testing. authors: - name: Susie Poppick url: https://money.com/author/susie-poppick/ at_money_since: 2013 articles: 117 covers: - Shopping - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Personal Finance - Retirement - Taxes - Technology social: - https://x.com/susiepoppick former_staff: true published: '2015-05-19T19:27:50.000Z' modified: '2015-05-19T19:27:50.000Z' section: Shopping tags: - BJ’s - consumer products - Costco - CVS - false advertising - Federal Trade Commission - flushable - FTC - kirkland - moist - nice-pak - pubdesk - Target - wet wipes - wipes word_count: 260 canonical: https://money.com/wet-wipes-flushable-nice-pak-ftc/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![182821138](https://img.money.com/2015/05/182821138.jpg) *Nice-Pak can no longer claim wipes are flushable without proving it first.* Anyone who has ever dealt with a clogged drain—only to find the culprit is one of those "flushable" wipes from Costco, CVS, Target, or BJ's—has cause for celebration. The Federal Trade Commission just announced a settlement with moist toilet tissue producer Nice-Pak that prevents the company from continuing to claim its products are actually flushable, at least until it proves those claims through testing. “The evidence didn’t back up Nice-Pak’s claims that their wipes were safe to flush,” said Jessica Rich, Director of the [FTC](https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2015/05/wet-wipe-manufacturer-agrees-substantiate-flushability)’s Bureau of Consumer Protection. “If you claim a product is flushable, it needs to flush in the real world, without clogging household plumbing or sewer and septic systems." The FTC found that Nice-Pak misrepresented that its Nice 'N Clean wipes, also sold under several store brands, break apart after being flushed. The [specific products](https://www.ftc.gov/system/files/documents/cases/150518nice-pakcmpt.pdf) made by Nice-Pak include Costco’s Kirkland Signature Moist Flushable Wipes, CVS’s Flushable Cleansing Wipes, Target’s Up & Up Flushable Moist Wipes, and BJ’s Family & Toddler Moist Wipes. Nice-Pak has responded with a statement claiming it switched its manufacturing process in late 2014 so that now all of its flushable wipes—including the brands named above—comply with the FTC testing requirements. Non-flushable wipes have always featured a "Do Not Flush" logo, a company rep says. Wet wipes have had an unflattering run in recent news, with some customers claiming that [certain brands](http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/business/allergy-trigger-found-in-many-personal-care-items-comes-under-greater-scrutiny.html?_r=0) contain allergy-triggering chemicals. Plus there's [a story from London](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/23/fatberg-london-sewer_n_7125878.html) about a city sewage pipe that simply burst under pressure from an 11-ton clog of congealed fat and—you guessed it—wet wipes. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/wet-wipes-flushable-nice-pak-ftc/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Shopping", "item": "https://money.com/shopping/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Personal Hygiene", "item": "https://money.com/personal-hygiene/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "Wet Wipes Company Rapped for 'Flushable' Claim" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/wet-wipes-flushable-nice-pak-ftc/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/wet-wipes-flushable-nice-pak-ftc/", "name": "Wet Wipes Company Rapped for 'Flushable' Claim", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2015-05-19T19:27:50.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/wet-wipes-flushable-nice-pak-ftc/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/wet-wipes-flushable-nice-pak-ftc/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2015-05-19T19:27:50.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "Wet Wipes Company Rapped for 'Flushable' Claim", "articleSection": "Shopping", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2015/05/182821138.jpg", "width": 5616, "height": 3744, "caption": "182821138" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Susie Poppick", "url": "https://money.com/author/susie-poppick/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/susie-poppick/#author", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/05/14-05-21_bio_author_poppick.jpg?quality=85&w=190&h=190&crop=1", "email": "susie_poppick@moneymail.com", "sameAs": [ "https://x.com/susiepoppick" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2015-05-19T19:27:50.000Z", "description": "The Federal Trade Commission just announced a settlement with moist toilet tissue producer Nice-Pak that prevents the company from continuing to claim its products are actually flushable, at least until it proves those claims through testing.", "abstract": "The Federal Trade Commission just announced a settlement with moist toilet tissue producer Nice-Pak that prevents the company from continuing to claim its products are actually flushable, at least until it proves those claims through testing.", "@id": "https://money.com/wet-wipes-flushable-nice-pak-ftc/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2015-05-19T19:27:50.000Z", "wordCount": 260, "keywords": [ "BJ’s", "consumer products", "Costco", "CVS", "false advertising", "Federal Trade Commission", "flushable", "FTC", "kirkland", "moist", "nice-pak", "pubdesk", "Target", "wet wipes", "wipes" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Shopping", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shopping" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Hygiene", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene" ] } ] } ] } ```