CARLSBAD, Calif. – April 1, 2019 – On March 29, 2019, GIA announced changes to its laboratory-grown diamond grading report to align the report with recent revisions to the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Jewelry Guides.

Effective July 1, 2019, GIA will discontinue the GIA Synthetic Diamond Grading ReportTM, introduced in January 2007, and introduce the GIA Laboratory-Grown Diamond ReportTM.