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Program (All times EST)
🍳 8:00 AM - Registration and Breakfast
👋 8:30 AM - Welcome and Housekeeping Nora Dowell, SoCal Dietary Supplement Consortium
🎯 8:35 AM - Keynote Address Cara Welch, Ph.D., Director Office of Dietary Supplement Programs, FDA Opening insights from FDA leadership.
🎯 9:10 AM - Supplier Qualification Process Lance Harding, Head of US Quality & Regulatory, Unilever Ensuring the quality, safety, and compliance of raw materials starts with a robust supplier qualification program. Explore industry best practices for evaluating, approving, and monitoring suppliers in accordance with FDA's cGMP requirements.
🎯 9:55 AM - USP 101: Introduction to Using the USP Compendia Kit S. Goldman, Ph.D., United States Pharmacopeia This presentation will introduce attendees to USP and to USP quality standards. The types of standards such as General Notices, General Chapters and Monographs that make up USP-NF will be described. These resources can support dietary supplement product development and quality testing. Topics such as the different sections of monographs, approaches to developing specifications, analytical tests used for different types of dietary ingredients, and requirements for performance testing will be discussed.
🍽️ 10:25 AM - Break
🎯 10:40 AM - Gummy Manufacturing: Quality and Safety Best Practice (60 minutes) Siobhan Taylor, FDA National Expert, Dietary Supplement As consumer demand for gummy supplements continues to rise, ensuring consistent quality and safety during manufacturing is more important than ever. Explore key best practices in processing and packaging, with a focus on meeting FDA cGMP requirements.
🎯 11:20 AM - State Regulatory Update Robert Durkin, Amin Wasserman Gurnani
👋 11:55 AM - Sponsor Presentations 🍽️ 12:10 PM - Lunch / Networking Session
👋 1:10 PM - Sponsor Presentations
🎯 1:30 PM - American Society for Quality Update Lance Harding, Head of US Quality & Regulatory, Unilever
🎯 1:30 PM - Industry Update Dan Fabricant, CEO & President, Natural Products Association Graham Rigby, President & CEO, American Herbal Products Association An in-depth look at the current landscape of the dietary supplement industry through the lens of industry leaders. Highlights key regulatory priorities, enforcement trends, and policy developments.
🎯 2:35 PM - Supplement Safety: CRN’s Melatonin Guidelines and Updated Vitamin & Mineral Safety Chapters Andrea Wong, Chief Science Officer, Council for Responsible Nutrition This session will highlight two key efforts: CRN’s revised melatonin guidelines and updated safety chapters for vitamins and minerals. The melatonin guidelines are an example of CRN’s commitment to consumers and the integrity of the dietary supplement market through self-regulation. They provide recommendations for maximum serving sizes based on the available safety data, intentional overages, precautionary label statements, and child-deterrent packaging. Updates to the vitamin and mineral safety chapters serve as a trusted resource for evaluating nutrient safety, reflecting the latest scientific research.
🍽️ 3:10 PM - Break
🎯 3:25 PM - Qualifying and Monitoring Your Contract Lab Gary Pecic, Dietary Supplement National Expert, FDA Petra Erlandson, Vice President of Sales, Alkemist Labs Accurate and reliable laboratory testing is fundamental to product quality and regulatory compliance. This session focuses on how to qualify and monitor contract laboratories to ensure they meet both FDA requirements and your company's quality standards.
❓ 4:25 PM - Ask the Experts Session
👋 4:55 PM - Event Closing Nora Dowell, SoCal DSC
The USP User Forum will be held the day before on May 14th and requires separate registration. Details at https://www.usp.org/events-training/dietary-supplements-stakeholder-forum-2026 |
