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Speaker, "Managing the Latest Threats Coming from Emerging Contaminants and Looking to International Markets for Potential New Ingredient Targets," ACI's Dietary Supplements Conference

 
June 26, 2024

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Seth Mailhot will present, "Managing the Latest Threats Coming from Emerging Contaminants and Looking to International Markets for Potential New Ingredient Targets," at ACI's Dietary Supplements Conference on Wednesday, June 26, 2024.

Topics:

  • Examining the latest state legislative efforts to ban titanium dioxide (TiO2) and other ingredients in food products: understanding the implications on the supplements industry
    • Understand what ingredients are currently being scrutinized by legislators, plaintiff’s counsel, consumer advocates, and other relevant stakeholders
  • Analyzing recent purported harmful ingredient class actions being brought across the food and supplements industry
    • Exploring common themes, allegations and takeaways
  • How supplement companies and their counsel should be reviewing product formulations, label claims, and other company statements to mitigate litigation risks associated with the presence of TiO2 and other scrutinized ingredients
  • Assessing the challenges for reformulating and replacing TiO2and other scrutinized ingredients in dietary supplement products
  • Assessing the latest PFAS laws, legislation and litigation impacting the dietary supplements industry at the federal and state levels
    • PFAS in packaging
    • Product labeling and disclosures
    • Bans on the intentional addition of PFAS
    • Thresholds for the unintentional addition of PFAS
  • Forecasting what contaminants could be the next target for legislators, regulators, and the plaintiff’s bar: using European activity and initiatives as a predictor
    • Exploring how Europe is recently looking at Silicon Dioxide, Mineral Oil Hydrocarbons (MOHs), and others

For more information, visit the event website.

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Seth A. Mailhot

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