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Save the Date for Keller and Heckman’s 2023 E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium

By Azim Chowdhury on October 6, 2022
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Save the date! Keller and Heckman’s Annual E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium is back in person in 2023. Please join us on February 15-16, 2023, for a two-day comprehensive seminar focused on legal and regulatory issues critical to e-vapor, tobacco, and CBD industries.

This year’s program will feature new, timely topics specifically designed to help vapor and deemed tobacco product manufacturers stay in compliance with rapidly evolving laws and policies. Topics that will be discussed include:

  • Challenging MDO’s and NSEs – Can you still appeal your denial?
  • FDA Litigation Update
  • FDA’s new guidance and proposed rulemakings
  • Preparing for Increased Enforcement
  • Premarket Tobacco Product Application (PMTA) and Substantial Equivalence (SE) Report strategies for small businesses
  • Scientific arguments for flavors and flavor choices
  • Marketing plans, post-market surveillance, and youth-access prevention strategies
  • FDA Remote Regulatory Assessments and Inspections
  • Prevent All Cigarette Trafficking (PACT) Act – Key Updates
  • New state laws (local flavor bans, licensing requirements, and state enforcement actions)
  • EU and Global Regulatory Update
  • Updates on CBD, Delta-8, and cannabis regulation
  • …and much more!

Registration for the seminar will open next week!

SEMINAR DETAILS

Dates
Wednesday, February 15 – Thursday, February 16, 2023

Registration Fees
Super Early-Bird Rate: $899, if registered by Friday, November 18, 2022
Early-Bird Rate: $999, if registered by Friday, January 13, 2023
Standard Registration Rate: $1,099, if registered after January 13, 2023

Location
Courtyard Irvine Spectrum
7955 Irvine Center Drive
Irvine, CA 92618

For questions concerning the 2023 E-Vapor and Tobacco Law Symposium, please contact:

Abby Maxwell-Morrisroe
Marketing and Events Specialist
maxwell@khlaw.com
202.434.4223

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Azim Chowdhury is a regulatory and public policy attorney with a focus on vapor, nicotine and tobacco product regulation. He is a Partner in Keller and Heckman’s nationally-ranked food and drug law practice.

Mr. Chowdhury advises domestic and foreign corporations in matters of…

Azim Chowdhury is a regulatory and public policy attorney with a focus on vapor, nicotine and tobacco product regulation. He is a Partner in Keller and Heckman’s nationally-ranked food and drug law practice.

Mr. Chowdhury advises domestic and foreign corporations in matters of Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and international regulatory compliance. In particular, he has developed expertise in tobacco and vapor product regulation relating to the implementation of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act, and spearheaded the Tobacco and E-Vapor practice at Keller and Heckman. Specifically, Mr. Chowdhury has experience representing tobacco, e-cigarette and e-liquid manufacturers, distributors, retailers, suppliers and trade associations in matters of FDA, state and global regulatory compliance. He also assists corporations in establishing clearances for food and drug additives in the U.S., Canada, and European Union, with an emphasis on indirect additives used in food-contact materials.

Mr. Chowdhury has authored and edited numerous articles and publications, including Tobacco Regulation and Compliance: An Essential Resource, FDA Regulation of Tobacco: A Comprehensive Guide – An FDLI Primer and Tobacco and Nicotine Delivery: Regulation and Compliance, 2nd Edition. He is a frequent contributor to the Food and Drug Law Institute’s (FDLI) Update Magazine and has served on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Food and Drug Law Journal.  In addition, he has been interviewed in the U.S. News and World Reports Best Lawyers Edition (2016) and was named one of “10 Names to Know in the Vape World” in the October 2015 issue of Vape Magazine. Mr. Chowdhury received the 2018 National Law Review Go-To Thought Leadership Award for his consistent coverage of the emerging issues surrounding vaping and e-cigarettes on Keller and Heckman’s law blog, The Continuum of Risk.  As an industry leader, Mr. Chowdhury frequently speaks at industry conferences and events.

Mr. Chowdhury also has an active pro bono practice through Keller and Heckman’s Pro Bono Program, and has been featured in the Baltimore Sun for successfully obtaining asylum in the United States for a family who fled their home country of El Salvador because of violence they faced from an international gang.

Prior to entering private practice, he served as a judicial law clerk on the Court of Special Appeals of Maryland. Mr. Chowdhury received a B.A. and B.S. from Johns Hopkins University, a MBA from the University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business, and a JD, cum laude, from the University of Maryland School of Law.

Education: Johns Hopkins University (B.A., B.S., 2003); University of Maryland Robert H. Smith School of Business (M.B.A., 2006); University of Maryland School of Law (J.D., 2006, cum laude).

Admissions: District of Columbia; Maryland

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