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The Product Safety Environment (PSE) Workshop aims to provide the information you need to ensure safe and sustainable footwear production and materials.

Thursday, October 27, 2011
8:30am-4:00pm
The Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort
21100 Pacific Coast Highway
Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Please Note Registration Discount: This workshop is the day following FDRA's Footwear Traffic Distribution and Customs (FTDC) Conference at the Hilton Waterfront Beach Resort. If you are registering for both meetings, you will receive $100 off of your FTDC registration. Here's how it works: Once you register for the PSE Conference, you will receive an email confirmation containing a special discount ID Code. Use that code when you register for the FTDC Conference and it will knock $100 off your FTDC registration.

Who should attend
Sourcing, Quality Control, Product Development and Company Leaders


Preliminary Agenda

8:00 am      Continental Breakfast & Registration

8:30 am      Welcome & Opening Remarks - Matt Priest, FDRA

8:45 am      CPSIA Implementation at the CPSC - Anne Northup, Commissioner, Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
                
9:45 am      Coffee break

10:00 am    Update on CPSIA & Saferproducts.gov - David Callet, Greenberg Traurig

11:30 am    Product Safety Briefing: Update on Proposition 65 - Melissa Jones, Greenberg Traurig 

12:15 pm    Lunch       

1:15 pm     Product Safety in Europe: An Update - Dr. Victoria Addy, BLC Leather Technology Centre

2:15 pm     The Leather Working Group: Improving Environmental Stewardship through the Footwear Leather Supply Chain - Adam Hughes, BLC Leather Technology Centre

3:00 pm    Coffee break

3:15 pm    XRF Technology: A Hands-On Demonstration - David Carreiro, Thermo Scientific Niton Handheld XRF Analyzers

4:00 pm     Adjourrnent


If you are interested in sponsoring this event, please contact FDRA for more information at 202.737.5660 or info@fdra.org.


Registration
FDRA Member: $347.50
Non-Member: $397.50


To register by fax or mail, please fill out this Registration Form.

Thank you to our generous sponsors!
Thermo Scientific Niton Handheld XRF Analyzers
The Topline Corporation
Micro-Pak
Olympus Innov-x