PPAI’s Product Responsibility Summit will feature a keynote by the nation’s foremost authority on product compliance.

  • Alexander Hoehn-Saric, chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), will speak at Summit, which will take place September 22-24 in Alexandria, Virginia.

“PPAI is honored that CPSC Chair Alexander Hoehn-Saric has accepted our invitation to speak at PPAI’s 14th annual Product Responsibility Summit,” says Rick Brenner, MAS+, president of Product Safety Advisors and co-chair of the event.

Hoehn-Saric’s session will include a Q&A format. Attendees who would like to see their questions answered by the government official can send them to rick.brenner@productsafetyadvisors.com.

“In addition to better understanding CPSC priorities, having the chair at our conference gives PPAI the opportunity to showcase all that we are doing as an association – through our Product Safety Aware policy, through PRAG, through the Product Responsibility Summit, through our certifications and our educational programs – to ensure that our members are developing, importing and selling safe and compliant products,” Brenner says.

Anyone interested in attending PPAI’s Product Responsibility Summit can still register by clicking here.

A Leading Voice In Compliance

A conference tailored to educating its attendees on product compliance would be hard-pressed to find a presenter more suited to speak on the issues than Hoehn-Saric.

  • President Biden nominated Hoehn-Saric to the role of chairing the CPSC in his first year in office. The Senate confirmed the civil servant into the position just three months later.
  • Hoehn-Saric is also commissioner of the CPSC.

During his tenure leading the CPSC, the organization has been vigilant in enforcing the safety standards of products, rejecting the premise that a product is safe because it has made its way to the shelves of consumer stores.

Hoehn-Saric has recently stated that, in 2023 alone, the CPSC has:

  • Announced more than 300 product recalls.
  • Levied more than $52 million in civic penalties.
  • Engaged in 14 new mandatory safety standard rulemakings.
  • Screened more than 60,000 harmful products at ports.

Prior to his role as chair of the CPSC, Hoehn-Saric served as chief counsel for communications and consumer protection for the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, where product safety was relevant to his objectives.

He has also served as senior counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation – handling product safety and consumer protection matters – and he held the title of deputy general counsel for strategic initiatives for the United States Department of Commerce.