February 2012

Melbourne- Intensive Workshop

“GOING GREEN: Eco-claims for Food and Other Fast Moving Consumer Goods”

 

Registration for Melbourne

Outline of issues:

This intensive workshop will give participants a thorough understanding of the regulatory environment and compliance obligations for food, beverages and other Fast Moving Consumer goods, making eco-marketing claims and environment-related marketing campaigns. 

This workshop will arm you with the knowledge to minimise legal risk exposure and manoeuvre around marketing and consumer protection compliance requirements.

Learn from a compliance expert presenter from FoodLegal who will show you how to design and assess your marketing and packaging claims, product descriptors and advertising to minimise the risk of legal liability for your products and your business.

 

This intensive workshop will cover: 

- Marketing law compliance principles

- Criteria to make Environmental Claims

- Product Stewardship regulatory impacts

- Carbon Credits regulatory impact of new laws

- ACCC Guidelines and relevant legal principles

- Regulatory issues for marketers and product developers

- Enhancing different methods for marketing the environmental aspects in relation to a product

- Different environmental or eco-labelling schemes, effects of logos and certified marks

- Relevant Australian and international standards

- New eco-friendly packaging technologies for sustainability, shelf life & recycling

- Conflicts between environmental claims

- New labelling technologies (eg QR Codes & new barcode data) and impacts of relevant laws

 

We will answer questions such as: 

-          What are the legal exposure risks?

-          How can I get legal protection for my claim?

-          How can I avoid an infringement?

-          How do the new laws work?

-          What are different companies doing?

-          What are the regulatory standards and guidelines?

Online Registration price ONLY $465.00 incl GST pp

 

*Workshop Terms & Conditions

Cancellation policy & substitutions

Substitutions can be made at any time before the event without penalty. FoodLegal reserves the right to cancel, alter the content and/or speakers in relation to the program. Paid registration fees will be fully refunded for a cancelled event. HOWEVER, cancellation by any registrant must be advised in writing (by email or fax) at least 10 working days prior to the event. Any cancellation for the Melbourne Intensive Workshop made after 9 February 2012 but more than 5 working days prior to the event will incur an administration fee of fifty percent (50%) of the total registration fee of $465.00. No refund will be given if a delegate either fails to attend or cancels within 5 working days prior to the event.

February 2012

Sydney- Intensive Workshop

“GOING GREEN: Eco-claims for Food and Other Fast Moving Consumer Goods”

 

Registration for Sydney

Outline of issues:

This intensive workshop will give participants a thorough understanding of the regulatory environment and compliance obligations for food, beverages and other Fast Moving Consumer goods, making eco-marketing claims and environment-related marketing campaigns. 

This workshop will arm you with the knowledge to minimise legal risk exposure and manoeuvre around marketing and consumer protection compliance requirements.

Learn from a compliance expert presenter from FoodLegal who will show you how to design and assess your marketing and packaging claims, product descriptors and advertising to minimise the risk of legal liability for your products and your business.

This intensive workshop will cover: 

- Marketing law compliance principles

- Criteria to make Environmental Claims

- Product Stewardship regulatory impacts

- Carbon Credits regulatory impact of new laws

- ACCC Guidelines and relevant legal principles

- Regulatory issues for marketers and product developers

- Enhancing different methods for marketing the environmental aspects in relation to a product

- Different environmental or eco-labelling schemes, effects of logos and certified marks

- Relevant Australian and international standards

- New eco-friendly packaging technologies for sustainability, shelf life & recycling

- Conflicts between environmental claims

- New labelling technologies (eg QR Codes & new barcode data) and impacts of relevant laws

 

We will answer questions such as: 

-          What are the legal exposure risks?

-          How can I get legal protection for my claim?

-          How can I avoid an infringement?

-          How do the new laws work?

-          What are different companies doing?

-          What are the regulatory standards and guidelines?

Online Registration price ONLY $465.00 incl GST pp

*Workshop Terms & Conditions

Cancellation policy & substitutions

Substitutions can be made at any time before the event without penalty. FoodLegal reserves the right to cancel, alter the content and/or speakers in relation to the program. Paid registration fees will be fully refunded for a cancelled event. HOWEVER, cancellation by any registrant must be advised in writing (by email or fax) at least 10 working days prior to the event. Any cancellation made after 2 February 2012 but more than 5 days prior to the event will incur an administration fee of fifty percent (50%) of the total registration fee of $465.00. No refund will be given if a delegate either fails to attend or cancels within 5 working days prior to the event.

October 2011

Healthy Bodies Of Law

Monday 10th October 2011 - 8.30am to 1.00pm The Menzies Hotel, Carrington Street, SYDNEY ($295.00 inc. GST)

This Symposium is a MUST for anyone interested in food or therapeutic products, especially if you have an interest in the marketing or formulation or regulation of products such as:

• Special purpose foods
• Functional foods
• Energy drinks
• Supplemented foods
• Dietary supplements
• Herbal remedies
• Botanical extracts
• Nutraceuticals
• Sports drinks
• Complementary health products
• Complementary medicines
• Weight loss products
• Weight loss programs
• Foods with health claims
• Foods with nutritional and therapeutic properties

Different rules can apply and functional claims attract attention from different regulators with separate perspectives and enforcement policies.

This Symposium will guide you through the risks and provide answers for product developers, marketers and investors.

Our high-profile expert speakers – including from government, industry specialist consultants and technical legal experts – will shed light on these questions:

• When can a product is best marketed as a food or as a complementary health product?
• When can functional foods have therapeutic and health claims?
• What are the pros and cons of classifying my product as a therapeutic good or as a food?
• When is my food a ‘Novel Food’?
• What regulatory environment will govern claims I make on behalf of a product?
• When does a product claim become an illegal misrepresentation concerning a competing product?
• How much evidence do I need to substantiate my product claim?
• Where do New Zealand’s rules fit in with selling the same products in Australia?
• What are the regulatory opportunities and challenges for weight-loss products?
• Case studies for regulation of innovation
• AND MANY more issues…

The presenters include speakers from the leading Australian Government agencies Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC);  Joe Lederman and Charles Fisher of FoodLegal providing expertise in food regulatory compliance and opportunities; Robert Forbes, one of Australia’s leading compliance specialists in Complementary Health  products compliance; and Professor Dr Tom Faunce of ANU Law School with a case study of nanotechnologies illustrating a cutting-edge area of innovation interfacing with regulation in the food and therapeutic sectors.

Further Terms & Conditions*