About Bao
Bao Vu regularly helps clients comply with California’s Proposition 65 and other chemicals-related product safety laws and regulations. He also navigates clients through laws and regulations involving sustainability-related practices, claim substantiation, and advertising. Bao’s practice routinely involves complex regulations established by federal agencies, such as the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), as well as California agencies, including the Air Resources Board, Department of Pesticide Regulation, Department of Toxic Substances Control, and Attorney General.
Clients also rely on Bao when they are the subject of single-plaintiff, class action, or government prosecutions. He has a successful track record of aggressively defending consumer product companies and their suppliers when they are alleged to have violated consumer protection, competition, and environmental laws and regulations. He helps clients with vendor and supplier disputes too.
Bao’s a frequent speaker at compliance seminars for product safety, compliance, regulation, quality assurance, green chemistry, chemical management, and sustainability professionals based in the United States and beyond. His clients are industrial facilities and other manufacturers, packagers, distributors, and retailers. His clients’ products and industries include:
- Medical Foods
- Nutritional Supplements
- Organic and Conventional Foods and Beverages
- Electronic Vaporizers
- Cosmetics
- Furniture
- Apparel
- Fashion Accessories
- Footwear
- Vehicles and Vehicle Parts
- Metals Fabrication
- Industrial Lubricants
- Cleaning Solvents
- Hobby Supplies
- Miscellaneous Consumer Goods
In addition to Stoel Rives, Bao has practiced at other national and international law firms, and he has served as a judicial extern to the Honorable James Ware (Ret.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, and the Honorable Roger L. Efremsky, U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California. Bao serves on the firm’s Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee.
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