Your blogger is attending (and speaking) at the conference sponsored by American Conference Institute this week on the topic of regulation and other legal issues concerning dietary supplements, nutraceuticals and functional foods. Important topics to be addressed include: Adverse Event Reporting (AER) under the Dietary Supplement and Non-Prescription Drug Consumer Protection Act, Public Law 109-462 [...]

Influential in federal criminal circles in South Florida, the Justice Building Blog recently posted an entry regarding Bill Matthewman, a partner in this blogger’s law firm, Seiden, Alder, Matthewman & Bloch, P.A. Bill is defending Kenneth Wilk who is accused of killing Broward County Sheriff Deputy Todd Fatta. In the Wilk case, Bill has been [...]

Make plans today to attend the In-House Counsel Forum on Manufacturing, Marketing and Distributing Dietary Supplements, Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods to be held on Tuesday, May 15, 2007 to Wednesday, May 16, 2007 in San Francisco at the San Francisco Hilton. The seminar is sponsored by American Conference Institute and features several industry experts speaking [...]

The President recently signed the Undertaking Spam, Spyware, And Fraud Enforcement With Enforcers beyond Borders Act of 2006. The USA SAFE WEB Act gives the Federal Trade Commission expanded authority to cooperate with foreign law enforcement officials in their investigations into wrong doing in the U.S. and vice versa. Expect more cross-border cooperation in deceptive [...]

The US Tax Court has held that when a dietary supplement manufacturer suffers “shrinkage” of inventory due to spoilage of supplements it may reduce its cost of goods sold, and its corresponding tax burden, by the value of the lost supplements. TOTAL HEALTH CENTER TRUST, BONNIE STEJSKAL, TRUSTEE, ET AL. v. COMMISSIONER OF INTERNAL REVENUE, [...]

For those who are just not satisfied with Omega-3′s and Hoodia, here’s a special Halloween dietary supplement for you. And you thought your parents didn’t leave you anything….ModernManEater.com Extra credit for anyone who can tell me whether this is for real or not.