Verto Legal Solutions (VLS) provides legal services to trade associations and companies in food, agriculture, and science-based industries. Our attorneys have strong working knowledge of the laws and regulations impacting the approval, use, and labeling of food ingredients.
We approach the counseling of food importers and manufacturers comprehensively, with attention to all relevant provisions including chemical management, and environmental and workplace safety laws.
Verto Solutions, LLC, an association management and scientific services firm in Washington, D.C, founded Verto Legal Solutions to meet the growing need for legal services for the associations managed by Verto Solutions and their member companies.
Meet the team
Managing Director
John Cox focuses his skills helping associations serve their members in effective and innovative ways. He has provided advocacy, communications, and legal counsel to the food and cosmetic ingredient industries since 2000. John is a lawyer, a communicator, and an association executive, bringing passion and expertise to all three roles. He manages several key functional areas at Verto Solutions and holds leadership positions with several client associations.
John provides legal services to associations and their member companies through Verto Legal Solutions (VLS). VLS was established by the owners of Verto Solutions to provide non-profit corporate governance and regulatory counsel to trade associations including ones managed by Verto Solutions, and their member companies.
Our expertise
- Association governance & non-profit corporate compliance
- Food and food ingredient law & regulations
- Food labeling
- Chemicals management
- Color additives
- Consumer protection laws
- Environmental law & regulations
- Generally recognized as safe ingredients
- Trade and import law & regulations
- Workplace safety
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