CRN to host webinars with Virgo Publishing

WASHINGTON The Council for Responsible Nutrition and Virgo Publishing on Wednesday announced plans to offer three webinars in 2010, with the first webinar — Dietary Supplement Safety: Understanding the Role of Adverse Event Reports in Product Recalls — taking place May 6, at 2 p.m.

The webinar will be moderated by Duffy MacKay, CRN VP scientific and regulatory affairs, and will offer attendees a better understanding around the role of a corporate post-market safety surveillance system that includes adverse event reporting to meet mandatory Food and Drug Administration reporting requirements. A panel of regulatory experts — Rick Kingston, president, SafetyCall International; Patrick Revelle, director, MedDRA MSSO; James Neal Kababick, director, Flora Research Labs; and Bob Moore of the Center For Science and Nutrition, Food and Drug Administration — will provide participants with insights on adverse event reporting, including the type and scope of information collected, how that information is reviewed and analyzed and how to both prevent and handle a product recall.

The webinars mark a continuation of a webinar partnership between CRN and Virgo that began in 2007.  The second and third webinars for 2010 will take place Aug. 3 and Nov. 4, with topics and speakers still to be determined.

“We’ve created a great combination of CRN’s knowledge of and contacts in scientific and regulatory affairs and Virgo Publishing’s expertise in producing educational webinars for the industry which is evident from our participant numbers and evaluations,” stated Judy Blatman, CRN SVP.