---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001493152-23-030387"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "STCB"
cik: "0001539850"
company_name: "Starco Brands, Inc."
filed_at: "2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-11T02:51:24.460886+00:00"
event_type: "other"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.2
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Starco Brands board approves Code of Business Conduct and Ethics and Insider Trading Policy

## Summary
- Board approved Code of Ethics on August 23, 2023, effective immediately.
- Code applies to all directors, officers, and employees of Starco Brands and subsidiaries.
- Company also adopted an Insider Trading Policy, referenced within the Code.
- Code filed as Exhibit 14.1 and posted on company website.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001493152-23-030387
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: STCB
- cik: 0001539850
- company_name: Starco Brands, Inc.
- filed_at: 2023-08-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.2
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.2
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.05, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539850/000149315223030387/0001493152-23-030387-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539850/000149315223030387/form8-k.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001493152-23-030387.txt

## Key facts
- Governance Changes
  Starco Brands, Inc.: Board adopted Code of Business Conduct and Ethics, effective immediately, covering mission, values, ethical actions, compliance, conflicts, and insider trading (effective 2023-08-23).
  - Change: code of ethics
  - Effective: 2023-08-23
  source text: On August 23, 2023 the board of directors (the “Board”) of Starco Brands, Inc. (the “Company”), the Board approved the Code of Business Conduct and Ethics (the “Code of Ethics”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1539850/000149315223030387/0001493152-23-030387-index.htm

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