<img src="http://www.npicenter.com/images/MarcUllman.gif" border="0" align="left">Mr. Ullman speaks frequently on various regulatory matters at various events, including Virgo Publications' Natural Products Industry Supply Side West Trade Shows and the National Nutritional Foods Association's annual MarketPlace Convention. He also manages the FYI Newsletter highlighting legal and regulatory issues concerning the Natural Product Industry. <br><br>Marc is a partner in New York City based Ullman, Shapiro & Ullman, <a href="http://www.usulaw.com">www.usulaw.com</a>. You can contact him at Marc[at]usulaw.com<br><br><i>Please note that blog is not intended to provide or serve as legal advice of any kind, and that the reader should not rely on it for such advice.</i> http://www.npicommunity.com/Blogs/tabid/53/BlogId/1/Default.aspx en-US marc@usulaw.com contactus@npicenter.com Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:26:40 GMT Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:26:40 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss Blog RSS Generator Version 3.1.20.17153 Congress enacts a law directing the FDA to issue a guidance document to regulated industry within 270 days after the law passes, and the Agency fails to do so. A well know company promotes its new product with the outrageous claim “Eat all you want and still lose weight . . . “ and the FTC fails to act. The Council for Responsible Nutrition issues a press release announcing a self regulatory initiative in conjunction with the National Advertising Division (“NAD”) of the Better Business Bureau and vows that it will not have any role in what claims the NAD will review (CRN also repeats this claims in numerous advertisements touting the NAD initiative). Despite this, CRN files claims in its own name as well as on behalf of all of its members against non-CRN member advertisers. http://www.npicommunity.com/Blogs/tabid/53/EntryID/93/Default.aspx marc@usulaw.com http://www.npicommunity.com/Blogs/tabid/53/EntryID/93/Default.aspx#Comments http://www.npicommunity.com/Default.aspx?tabid=53&EntryID=93 Thu, 11 Oct 2007 19:10:00 GMT 0 http://www.npicommunity.com/DesktopModules/Blog/Trackback.aspx?id=93