ACI: Daniel Fabricant to Chair ACI’s Dietary Supplements Forum

May 31, 2013 - PRLog -- American Conference Institute (ACI) is pleased to announce that Daniel Fabricant, Director of the FDA's Division of Dietary Supplement Programs at the Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements and Scott Bass, head of Sidley Austin's Global Life Sciences team will co-chair ACI’s Legal Regulatory and Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements which will take place in New York City on June 26 -27, 2013 (Workshops on June 25 and 27).

As Stephanie Butler, Division Manager of ACI’s  Life Sciences and Health Care Division noted “this conference presents a unique opportunity to not only hear from directly from the FDA’s Director of Supplements, but to also hear from key representatives from the industry’s two leading trade associations: Natural Products Association (NPA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN).”

Lisa J. Piccolo, Senior Industry Manager, Life Sciences and Health Care with ACI, stated “ACI is proud and honored to work with Mr. Fabricant and Mr. Bass on this conference which is essentially a gathering of the “who’s who” of the supplement industry.  The faculty not only includes key government and association authorities, but also has representatives from such leading supplement makers as Herbalife, NBTY, Pfizer, Reckitt Benckiser, Novartis, Lonza, and Kemin, in addition to key food and drug lawyers who specialize in this area of products intended to “supplement the diet””

Co- Chairs:

·         Daniel Fabricant, PhD, Director of the FDA's Division of Dietary          Supplement Programs, Office of Nutrition, Labeling and Dietary Supplements,
  at the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition

·         Scott Bass, Partner and Head of Sidley Austin's Global Life Sciences

Industry Trade Associations:

·         John S. Shaw, Executive Director/CEO, Natural Products Association

·         Mike Greene, Vice President, Government Relations, Council for          Responsible Nutrition

·         Rend Al-Mondhiry, Regulatory Counsel, Council for Responsible Nutrition

·         Cara Welch, Ph.D., Senior Vice President, Scientific & Regulatory Affairs          ,Natural Products Association

FTC

·         Nur-ul-Haq, Staff Attorney, Northeast Regional Office, Federal Trade          Commission

NAD

·         Rebecca Griffith, Staff Attorney, National Advertising Division, Council of          Better Business Bureaus, Inc.

Industry

·         Cameron Smith, Herbalife

·         Todd Halpern, Pfizer

·         Mark Brian Levine, Reckitt Benckiser

·         Debbie Trinker, Kemin

·         Josh Beser,  Lonza America Inc.

·         David M. Moss, Pfizer

·         Mary Leheny, Novartis Consumer Health, Inc.

·         Christine McInerney, NBTY, Inc.

Law Firm

·         David G. Adams, Venable LLP

·         Sharon A. Blinkoff, Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP

·         Dickerson M. Downing, Crowell & Moring LLP

·         Daniel R. Dwyer,  Kleinfeld, Kaplan and Becker, LLP

·         Christopher G. FitzPatrick,  Smith, Gambrell & Russell, LLP

·         Edward F. Glynn, Jr.,  Manatt, Phelps & Phillips

·         Martin Hahn, Hogan Lovells

·         Michelle Jackson, Venable LLP

·         Greer Olsen Lautrup, Sidley Austin LLP

·         Paul D. Rubin,  Ropes & Gray LLP

·         Frederick A. Stearns, Keller and Heckman LLP

Full information on the forum can be found at www.AmericanConference.com/DietarySupplements

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