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a. Examples include meal replacements, vitamins, nutritional products, shakes and supplements. b. If required, product must be approved for marketing by the FDA. See guideline 1 above. c. If product does not require FDA approval, complete scientific and technical data concerning product safety, operation and usefulness should be made available to the Committee. The Committee may require additional documentation to substantiate claims made. 3. Other product or service a. Examples include body composition analyzers, lab tests, blood pressure cuffs, and business models/technologies, such as insurance, marketing applications, and computer software. b. The product or service must serve to advance and improve the professional standards of practice in obesity medicine. In addition, products and services that are of interest to

obesity medicine clinicians may be accepted at the discretion of Committee. c. The Committee in its sole discretion may require the submission of scientific

documentation and technical data to substantiate the safety and effectiveness of the product or service. If the safety, effectiveness, and accuracy of claims made have not been demonstrated to the Committee’s satisfaction, the application will not be accepted.

Basis for Denial: The Committee will NOT approve an application when the products or services described in the application: • are not germane or are not of interest to clinicians in the field of obesity medicine or in general do not align with the rules and regulations, position statements, and purpose of OMA. OMA strictly prohibits the promotion of HCG. • include false or misleading statements. OMA requires that all exhibits, products, and promotional materials be factual and dignified. • are determined to be in poor taste, offensive to attendees, or promote unethical or illegal activity. • reflect programs, products, and/or services, in whole or in part, that compete with OMA programs, products, and/or services. OMA may reject an application if the exhibitor violated OMA exhibitor rules or agreements. For example, exhibitors should: • Avoid delays in past or current payments for booths • Avoid speaking ill of OMA, its members, or other OMA exhibitors and vendors • Avoid video or audio recording of exhibition attendees • Avoid assigning, subletting, or apportionment of the exhibiting space to others, without prior OMA approval • Avoid combustible materials at the booth site • Avoid distribution of advertisement materials outside the booth space • Avoid distribution of giveaways, prizes, drawings, without prior OMA approval • Avoid lights or noises that attendees or other exhibitors may find objectionable • Avoid leaving the exhibit space damaged or unclean after the exhibit is completed