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• HEALTHCARE. KeyView Labs, a Florida-based supplement-maker, registered with lobby firm Holland & Knight to work on “issues related to the supplemental vitamin industry,” according to disclosure forms. Among the company’s supplements is one that it says combats forgetfulness and mental fatigue caused by lack of sleep, poor diet and stress. The dietary supplement industry grosses more than $30 billion every year, and has relatively lax federal regulatory oversight. Although KeyView Labs has not been specifically criticized, the industry at large has come under a congressional microscope. At Holland & Knight, the company has a former congressman — Jim Davis, a Florida Democrat — on its team.

• FOREIGN AFFAIRS. The Democratic Republic of the Congo has hired KRL International for a provisional three-month period. The firm will “assist in the implementation of a communications and advocacy program in support of the efforts of the Office of the Special Representative” of the Congo with U.S. government officials, donors worldwide, nonprofit organizations and the private sector “to build a base of support for the fight against sexual violence and child recruitment,” according to a contract submitted to the Justice Department under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.

{mosads}• Consulting firm Sandler Trade signed the Embassy of Nepal, and documents say that the firm will be pushing for the Nepal Trade Preferences Act. The legislation, introduced by Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), would carve out preferential treatment for selected items that are imported directly from Nepal into the United States and its territories. 

• K STREET. Mehlman Castagnetti Bingel Rosen and Thomas has signed two new clients, the American Tower Corporation and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers. The American Tower Corporation, which owns and operates cellular towers in North America, will be advocating on congressional reform provisions relating to real estate. For the latter group, the firm will be working on issues including trade, taxes and “modifying or eliminating the Renewable Fuel Standard,” forms say.