The 14th Annual Legal, Regulatory & Compliance Forum on Dietary Supplements, hosted by the American Conference Institute (ACI), brings together leading in-house counsel, regulatory professionals, industry executives, and government representatives to examine the latest legal, regulatory, and compliance developments affecting the dietary supplements industry. The conference focuses on emerging FDA and FTC enforcement trends, marketing and advertising compliance, product safety, state law developments, AI-related risks, and other key issues shaping the industry's business and regulatory landscape.
Will Wagner will speak on a panel on June 25th titled Surviving EPR: Tactical Compliance Strategies for Meeting New Packaging and Reporting Obligations. The panel will focus on how Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws have quickly moved from a future concern to a present-day compliance challenge for dietary supplement companies. With multiple states adopting, and continually revising, EPR frameworks for packaging, companies are shifting from understanding the concept to figuring out how to operationalize compliance across jurisdictions with conflicting rules, deadlines, and reporting requirements.
• Navigating multi-state EPR regimes: managing overlapping and conflicting rules across CA, CO, ME, MD, MN, OR, WA
• Understanding the requirements set forth in emerging EPR laws in 13 additional states and counting
• Examining the current status of California’s EPR program, recent pauses and reconsideration of requirements, and what companies should be doing while timelines and obligations remain in flux
• Getting the data right: practical guidance on calculating material quantities, distinguishing between packaging components, determining exemptions, and avoiding common reporting pitfalls
• Managing competing reporting obligations: strategies for handling differing definitions, reporting formats, and submission timelines across states
• Building internal workflows, tools and cross-functional coordination models for staying compliant as EPR rules continue to evolve