Marc Ullman was interviewed for the Nutraceuticals World article, “Baltimore CBP Seizes $688k Shipment of Illegal Weight Gain Product.”

The Baltimore Customs and Border Patrol seized a 22,500 bottles of Apetamin. The supplement, which is being marketed illegally for weight gain , contains the antihistamine, cyproheptadine, which is only available via a doctor’s prescription.

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On May 1, Marc Ullman co-presented a virtual lecture to graduate students enrolled in the Masters in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Cannabis Science & Medicine Graduate Certificate program at Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Colorado. The students are taking the course, Legal & Regulatory Issues in Cannabis Science & Medicine.

Marc discussed

Please join us for the May Lunch and Learn as Robert Hussar and Mary Aperance present on the fifth and sixth required elements of an Effective Compliance Program. They will discuss:

• Disciplinary Standards
• Auditing and Monitoring

The program will be moderated by Robert Hussar, a partner in Rivkin Radler’s Compliance, Investigations & White

Marc Ullman spoke with Stephen Daniells, Editor-in-Chief of Nutraingredients-USA, for the article, “Ullman breaks down FTC’s recent health products compliance guidance.”

The guidance, which was issued in December 2022, updates Dietary Supplements: An Advertising Guide for the Industry, released in 1998.

Marc notes that the guidance now applies to all products that make health claims,

Bob Hussar was interviewed by the Report on Medicare Compliance for its article, “New NYS Compliance-Program Requirements May Be Useful Everywhere as a ‘Fresh Look.'”

The article covers the new compliance-program requirements that will take effect on March 28 of this year. In order for healthcare providers to be paid by Medicare, they must have an effective

Please join us for the April Lunch and Learn as Robert Hussar presents on the third and fourth required elements of an Effective Compliance Program. He will discuss:

• Training
• Effective lines of communication

Participants will be eligible for 1.2 CCB credits and 1 CLE credit in Professional Practice.

Date: Wednesday, April 19

Marc Ullman was cited in the NutraIngredientsUSA article, “Lawsuit claims corporations are selling donkey skin supplements illegally.”

The column examines the suit that The Center for Contemporary Equine Studies has filed against retailers for illegally selling donkey skin supplements in California.

Ullman comments, “There appear to be a number of concerns, assuming the truth of

Please join us for the March Lunch and Learn as we discuss the first two required elements of an Effective Compliance Program:

1. Policies and Procedures; and
2. Compliance Officer/Compliance Committee

The program will be presented and moderated by Robert Hussar, a partner in Rivkin Radler’s Compliance, Investigations & White Collar and Health Services

Geoffrey Kaiser was quoted in the Part B News article, “Be careful about upcoding; DOJ may come after it as a false claim.”

A recent Department of Justice settlement in North Carolina has people wondering, how frequently the DOJ gets involved in healthcare upcoding cases. While reviewing recent cases, one can see that DOJ action

Marc Ullman commented on the NutraIngredientsUSA article, “FTC charges The Bountiful Company for ‘review hijacking’ on Amazon.”

“Review hijacking ‘seems like a legitimate issue,'” said Ullman. “What you’re dealing with is not just changing the labels, but the doses, and more. It’s really a different product and that’s a problem both for consumers and competitors.”