Amarachi Okpala-Onwuamaegbu is the founder of House of Maramuna, a 100% Nigerian sourced organic oil company with a rich history in customer service and quality. An outstanding feature of Amarachi's company is the ability to diversify and provide exclusive products for varieties and meeting consumers' needs. Her products are sourced from farms and local markets using sustainable processing methods.
Amarachi is well known for her passion for delivery of original coconut oil, carrot oils and a variety of other organic oils. Amarachi has impacted the lives of over 5,000 school children and women in her community through her entrepreneurship programs and she advocates against the use of skin bleaching products.
She is an Alumna of Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) and African Women Entrepreneurship Cooperative (AWEC), an Alumna of YALI Regional Leadership Center (YALINetwork) an African Changemakers Fellow and currently volunteering as the Director for Training and Empowerment for Ultimate Destiny Uplifters Foundation (UDUF).
Amarachi loves volunteering and she is dedicated to serving humanity.
New technologies as allies for product safety
New technologies can be a great ally for consumer product safety. This panel will present a range of cutting-edge tools designed to enhance consumer product safety, e.g. by detecting dangerous products online, identifying emerging product safety issues and improving product traceability.
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Petar Parushev is a policy officer in the product safety unit of the European Commission, which is the unit that operates Safety Gate - the EU/EEA rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products. He is responsible for the implementation and further development of EU product safety legislation and policy. Being a member of the Safety Gate team, Petar is guiding and assisting the national market surveillance authorities when publishing alerts on unsafe products in the Safety Gate. Due to his software development background, Petar is involved in the development of various IT applications that help authorities and businesses to establish a safer market for all citizens.
New technologies as allies for product safety
New technologies can be a great ally for consumer product safety. This panel will present a range of cutting-edge tools designed to enhance consumer product safety, e.g. by detecting dangerous products online, identifying emerging product safety issues and improving product traceability.
Speakers:
Francesca Poggiali is Chief Public Policy Officer Europe at GS1 and Chair of Digital for Green at AIOTI. Among her biggest achievements so far, there are the corporate social responsibility program for Ferrero, the convergence of environmental protection and chemical industry impacts in the framework of the EU Chemical reform, the fight against illicit trade through open non-proprietary standards for GS1.
Francesca studied Corporate Social Responsibility at the Harvard Business School, European Law at Leeds University and at LUISS University in Rome where she received the highest recognition cum laude.
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New technologies as allies for product safety
New technologies can be a great ally for consumer product safety. This panel will present a range of cutting-edge tools designed to enhance consumer product safety, e.g. by detecting dangerous products online, identifying emerging product safety issues and improving product traceability.
Speakers: