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Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®) are pleased to announce that Christine M. Palermo, Ph.D., DABT has joined our firms as Director of Regulatory Sciences. Dr. Palermo provides Acta clients with global strategy in chemical regulatory compliance, risk assessment, and product stewardship, assisting clients to commercialize new products and expand markets for existing product portfolios. Dr. Palermo deploys the extensive domestic and international experience she...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®) are pleased to announce that Ryan N. Schmit has joined our firms. A 15-year veteran of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), Mr. Schmit worked on the front lines of EPA’s Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) implementation efforts, including significant and precedent-setting policy matters regarding the establishment of TSCA procedural frameworks; new...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta®) are pleased to announce that Lindsay A. Holden, Ph.D., DABT® has joined our firms as Senior Toxicologist and Regulatory Scientist. Prior to joining our firms, Dr. Holden served as Toxicology Lead for the Chemical and Material Risk Management Program, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense (Energy, Installations, & Environmental), and Chief of the Neuroscience Department Medical Toxicology Research Division,...

The Acta Group (Acta®) is pleased to announce the expansion of our global scientific and regulatory capabilities with the appointments of Tiina A. Lantto, Ph.D., Regulatory Scientist and Toxicologist in our Brussels, Belgium, office, and Max L. Moseley, MSc, Regulatory Specialist in our Manchester, England, office. Dr. Tiina A. Lantto provides seasoned, sophisticated toxicology and regulatory guidance for worldwide chemical registration and compliance programs, with particular expertise in...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) is pleased to announce publication of the 2024 edition of Guide to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), LexisNexis (Guide to TSCA), the first under the editorial direction of the TSCA team at Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. Guide to TSCA is the definitive comprehensive treatise on TSCA, written for lawyers, regulatory affairs specialists, and commercial and business people who need to understand the details of this...

The Acta Group (Acta®) and Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) are pleased to announce that Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner of B&C and President of Acta, is recipient of the 2024 Allan K. Fleeger Distinguished Service Award from the Product Stewardship Society® (PSS). PSS established the award in 2018 to recognize extraordinary contributions by a product steward to the growth and success of PSS and the product stewardship profession. Ms. Bergeson served as a Member of the PSS...

Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) is pleased to announce the publication of updates and additions to the B&C online regulatory training platform. All courses can be accessed at https://training.lawbc.com/. TSCA Tutor® B&C has updated the content in T101 -- An Overview of TSCA and T204 -- Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) to reflect updated Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) implementation information and the upcoming 2024 CDR period. FIFRA...

On December 6, 2023, comments by Lynn L. Bergeson and Richard E. Engler, Ph.D. were featured in Chemical Watch's article on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) recent proposal to overhaul its 2017 risk evaluation ‘framework’ rule. Lynn Bergeson and Rich Engler of Bergeson & Campbell said their primary concern centres around the proposal to remove scientific definitions like ‘best available science’ and ‘weight of the scientific evidence’ from the...

On December 4, 2023, comments by Lynn L. Bergeson and Christopher Blunck were featured in Chemical Watch's article regarding a TSCA section 5(f) orders prohibiting Texas-based Inhance Technologies from producing certain PFAS when fluorinating plastic containers, a move the company said will threaten its "very existence" and affect thousands of downstream businesses. According to Bergeson & Campbell managing partner Lynn Bergeson, the severity of the remedy (cessation of...

On December 6, 2023, comments by Lynn L. Bergeson and Richard E. Engler, Ph.D. were featured in Chemical Watch's article on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to conduct its TSCA risk evaluation of formaldehyde following procedures in its existing risk evaluation ‘framework’ rule, rather than those set out in a recent regulatory proposal. Lynn Bergeson and Richard Engler of law firm Bergeson & Campbell said they were surprised to hear the agency would rely...