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*

March 2011

BLEWETT BETWEEN THE LINES

FOODLEGAL invites all food businesses and stakeholders to an informative 4-hour SYMPOSIUM to learn more about planning for the implications of the 'Labelling Logic - The Final Report of the Review of Food Labelling Law and Policy'.

 

*What new labelling requirements will impact your foods?

*What opportunities are there for industry?

*What will be new increased  risks of non-compliance?

 

The Review was commissioned by the Australian Federal government following strong consumer and business expressions of dissatisfaction and political pressure for a reform of food labelling law over a number of key issues. The Review, undertaken by a Panel of 4 experts was headed by Dr Neal Blewett.

Download here Food Labelling Symposium Brochure

 

SPEAKERS include a key member of the Blewett Review Panel, industry representatives and key stakeholders as well as FoodLegal lawyers.

November 2010

FOOD MARKETING COMPLIANCE WORKSHOP

MONDAY 29 NOVEMBER 2010

Registration and Networking from 8.30am Workshop duration: 9am - 1pm 

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?

Anyone involved in food Marketing, or anyone responsible

for Labelling and/or Sourcing Ingredients.

THIS WORKSHOP WILL COVER:

New rules and changes to laws affecting food marketing claims and product descriptors and labelling issues under The Australian Consumers Law (commencing 1 January 2011) to supersede the existing Trade Practices Act provisions  

The rules governing the marketing of food products by reference to "eco-friendly" qualities e.g.  "sustainable", "recyclable" or other life cycle claims, "green", "low carbon footprint", "natural": and various certifications and many others

This informative and enjoyable session is a MUST to avoid a claims crisis on green credentials and understand how far you can go!

We explain a range of options and prove case studies.

PRESENTERS: