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Friday, October 24
9-9:50am
Location: Casanova 601
State-of-the-Industry Panel
Listen as representatives from the American Herbal Products
Association (AHPA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) discuss
current issues facing ingredient suppliers, natural- and healthy-product
manufacturers and marketers. Questions to be addressed include: What is
the impact of the dollar devaluation on the supply chain from foreign
countries in the dietary supplement industry? Are “country of origin
labels” a next logical consequence to the fall-out of contaminated raw
materials?
Speakers:
 Michael McGuffin is president of
the American Herbal Products Association (AHPA). McGuffin has been
active in the herbal industry since 1974, having owned both retail and
manufacturing businesses in this field. He is the managing editor of
AHPA’s Botanical Safety Handbook (1997) and of Herbs of
Commerce, 2nd Edition (2000). McGuffin has represented the herbal
industry at state and federal hearings on regulatory issues and has
twice served on a working group and a subcommittee of FDA’s Food
Advisory Committee. He also serves on the boards of the American Herbal
Pharmacopoeia, the Dietary Supplement Education Alliance and United
Plant Savers, and as an advisor for the University of Southern
California School of Pharmacy’s Regulatory Sciences Program.
 Steven M. Mister, Esq., is
president and CEO of the Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN). Mister
joined CRN from his position as director of government affairs at the
National Association of Professional Employer Organizations. Prior to
that, he worked for over a decade at the Consumer Healthcare Products
Association (CHPA), most recently as vice president and associate
general counsel. He also worked as an attorney in the Washington, D.C.,
area.
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