Immune Function: Current Research and Labeling Claims
Date: On Demand
Time: 2pm EDT
Length: 60 minutes
Description
In this Webinar, leading industry experts will discuss:
- The prevalance of immune function claims and whether or not these claims are substantiated by competent and reliable scientific evidence
- How physicians and scientists with expertise in the immune system are looking to certain markets to determine whether a product has an effect on immune function
- How the FDA may not have a priority interest in substantiation of immune function claims, but the FTC may address such claims when they are considering enforcement action
- Why substantiation of all claims is important
- Current science in the immune function category
Speaker:
Tony Young joined Kleinfeld, Kaplan and Becker, LLP as a partner in March 2003. He began his legal career in 1974 as an associate and then partner at Wald, Harkrader & Ross. In 1986 he became a partner in the firm now known as Piper Rudnick LLP. Young graduated from Georgetown University Law Center in 1973 and clerked on the District of Columbia Court of Appeals. He is the co-author of the 1996 Food and Drug Law Institute book, Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act: A Legislative History and Analysis.
Young has counseled and represented domestic and foreign manufacturers with respect to compliance and defense of matters under the statutes enforced by the Food and Drug Administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency for over twenty-five years. He has a diversified litigation and legislative consumer products practice from a regulatory, litigation and product liability perspective.
He represents food and dietary supplement product and ingredient manufacturers, developers and distributors. Young serves as Regulatory Counsel to the Pharmaceutical Distributors Association and represents several large secondary prescription drug wholesalers with respect to matters arising under the Prescription Drug Marketing Act and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and state laws implementing those statutes. He also serves as General Counsel to the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA) and has served as one of the counsel to another trade association in the dietary supplement industry. He was heavily involved in the negotiations that led to the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA) of 1994.
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