It was to be the Latin American version of the Charles Dickens’ classic, a Tale of Two Cities. For Gustavo Lopez, vice president of Legal for Discovery Networks, Latin America and U.S. Hispanic, the discussion he was to lead at WorldCity’s Government Affairs Connections gathering on Feb. 26 was going to be about Buenos Aires and Bogota. More specifically, he wanted to talk about how utterly different was Discovery’s experience in working through knotty challenges with government regulation — this group might prefer the term intervention — in Argentina and… Read More
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Christine Humphrey
Fuerst Humphrey Ittleman Partner
Christine Humphrey, a partner in the Miami law firm Fuerst Humphrey Ittleman, was a panelist at the nation’s largest seafood event last month, the International Boston Seafood Show.
Humphrey, a former U.S. Food and Drug Administration compliance officer, was one of the experts chosen to serve on a panel entitled “Changes in Food Safety for 2009: How Will Your Company be Affected?” Other panelists included the FDA’s director of the Division of Import Operations and Policy, Domenic Veneziano; the director of Certified Laboratories, Martin Mitchell; and Global Aquaculture Alliance President and co-founder, Dr. George Chamberlain
Food safety has been in the news recently, with several highly publicized cases, including seafood imports from China peanut butter originating in Georgia. There are more than two dozen bills in various stages of development in the U.S. Congress related to food safety programs.
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