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GlobalChem, presented by the American Chemistry Council, brings together industry professionals to review recent developments in global chemicals management and meet and reconnect with industry peers and key government representatives. B&C is a proud exhibitor....
The International Bar Association (IBA) Agriculture and Food Section (AFS) and Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee are pleased to invite other lawyers interested in agriculture, food, healthcare, and life sciences to their Virtual Joint Networking Session. There will be three brief 2-minute insights on the topics of cultivated meat (with Jan Holthuis), antimicrobial resistance (with Sara Moyo) and advertising regulations for medicinal products vs advertising regulations for food...
March 12, 2025
Lynn L. Bergeson, “EPA, OSHA Sign Ambiguous Memorandum of Understanding,” Chemical Processing, March 12, 2025.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced on Jan. 13, 2025, that it signed a much-anticipated memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), formalizing coordination on EPA’s work to assess and manage existing chemicals under Section 6 of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). A closer read of the MOU leaves us wanting more than what is there....
March 7, 2025
ECHA Updates Annual Evaluation Statistics and Recommendations to Registrants on Improving Dossiers
The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced on February 26, 2025, that it has updated its annual statistics on evaluation progress. According to ECHA, between 2009 and 2024, it checked the compliance of 15,500 Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation registrations, representing 23 percent of all submitted registration dossiers and covering 3,200 substances. For high-volume chemicals registered at quantities of 100 metric tons or more per year,...
The 41st SQA Annual Meeting will cover “hot topics” in GCP, GLP, GMP, pharmacovigilance, scientific archiving, computer validation, veterinary medicine, and other QA disciplines. Lara A. Hall, MS, RQAP-GLP, Senior Regulatory Scientist and Quality Assurance Specialist, Acta, and Michelle C. Mims, MS, RQAP-GLP, Regulatory Scientist and Quality Assurance Specialist, Acta will present “A Sponsor’s Role in Regulatory Testing under EPA GLP” on April 8, 2025....
February 19, 2025
Lynn L. Bergeson, “The Cost of Cleanup: Preparing for PFAS remediation battles,” Corporate Disputes, January – March 2025.
In April 2024, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opened an enormous can of worms for entities even remotely association with the generation, transport, use or disposal of two legacy per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS): perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS). In designating the PFAS as “hazardous substances” under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA), the EPA greenlit the initiation of...
February 18, 2025
Lynn L. Bergeson, “Chemical Compliance: Is TSCA Reform in Our Future?,” Chemical Processing, February 18, 2025.
It’s been almost nine years since Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) stakeholders celebrated President Obama’s enactment of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg) on June 22, 2016. Because the road to amending TSCA was long (almost a decade), contentious and complicated, stakeholders may have been more relieved that the process was finally over than interested in the fine print....
January 29, 2025
Lynn L. Bergeson, “The “Undoing” Season,” American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) Blog, January 29, 2025.
It has been almost nine years since Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) stakeholders celebrated President Obama’s enactment on June 22, 2016, of the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (Lautenberg). Because the road to amending TSCA was long (almost a decade), contentious, and complicated, stakeholders were perhaps more relieved that the process was finally over than inclined to focus on the fine print. This article discusses mid-course corrections that are desperately...
On January 16, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of and requested public comment on the draft scope of the risk evaluation to be conducted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for vinyl chloride. 90 Fed. Reg. 4738. EPA notes that under TSCA, the scope documents must include the conditions of use (COU), hazards, exposures, and the potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations (PESS) that EPA expects to consider in conducting...
January 28, 2025
Lynn L. Bergeson, “Chemical Regulations: 2025’s Fuzzy Forecast,” Chemical Processing, January 28, 2025.
For all the reasons you might imagine, 2025 is an especially challenging year to speculate on what to expect regarding global industrial, agricultural and biocidal chemical regulatory and policy initiatives. We give it our best shot in this article....