The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on October 3, 2014, the availability of a final document entitled Guidance for Applying Quantitative Data to Develop Data-Derived Extrapolation Factors for Interspecies and Intraspecies Extrapolation (DDEF Guidance). EPA states that the DDEF Guidance “lays out methods for calculation of factors compensating for the application of animal toxicity data to humans (interspecies) and for compensating for sensitive populations...
November 20, 2014
K-REACH: What You Need to Know to Do Business in South Korea in 2015
This webinar has occurred. For copies of presentation materials contact chad.howlin@lawbc.com. Thursday, December 4, 2014Two webinars optimized for EU and U.S. participants EU-focused: 6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. (EST)/11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (GMT)U.S.-focused: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EST)/6:30 – 8:30 p.m. (GMT) The Toxic Chemicals Control Act (TCCA) of 1991 — the key law addressing the basic management of industrial chemicals — will be divided, as...
Webinar Presented by Bloomberg BNAWednesday, December 10, 20141:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m. (EST) While the United Nations’ (UN) Globally Harmonized System for Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS) model provides a backbone for hazard communications, it is only a tool for other nations to utilize, adopt, and amend as appropriate for their country-specific needs. There are substantial differences among the approaches taken by Canada, Mexico, and the United States in GHS...
November 18, 2014
Lynn L. Bergeson, “EP Committee Study on Legislative Areas of the TTIP Addresses Nanomaterials,” Nanotechnology Now, November 18, 2014.
The European Parliament (EP) Committee on Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety (ENVI) has posted a study entitled ENVI Relevant Legislative Areas of the EU-US Trade and Investment Partnership Negotiations (TTIP). See http://www.europarl.europa.eu/thinktank/en/document.html?reference=IPOL_STU(2014)536293. The study analyzes the main differences between European Union (EU) and U.S. legislation in eight areas: human medicines and medical devices; cosmetics; food and nutrition; sanitary...
November 17, 2014
Lynn L. Bergeson Quoted in Chemical Watch Story “Leading Republican Senators Pledge to ‘Rein In’ US EPA”
Comments by Lynn L. Bergeson were featured in an article by Chemical Watch that discussed the likelihood that the U.S. EPA’s initiatives will come under increased scrutiny in Congress when Republicans take control of both chambers next year. “’Given Senator Inhofe’s strong views on EPA, it would not surprise me if he took direct aim at many EPA initiatives, starting with, but by no means ending with, climate change,’ said Lynn Bergeson of the law firm Bergeson...
November 13, 2014
Webinar Series – The Globally Harmonized System Of Classification & Labeling of Chemicals (GHS): Requirements, Challenges, and Opportunities
REMINDER Join Gradient and Bergeson & Campbell for a webinar and online discussion series regarding the scientific, legal, and business implications brought on by the widespread implementation of GHS principles. Major changes for chemical manufacturers and importers are in store on June 1, 2015, when the key provisions of US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) Hazard Communication Standard (“HazCom” 2012) take effect. HazCom 2012, which mandates alignment with...
November 12, 2014
Lynn L. Bergeson Quoted in Chemical Watch Story “Republican Control of Congress Boosts TSCA Reform Prospects”
Chemical Watch quoted Lynn L. Bergeson in a November 12, 2014, article about the effects of a Republican-controlled Congress. “’Given the Republican gains in the Congress, one scenario would be a strong effort to push through the Udall-Vitter proposal,’ said Lynn Bergeson of the law firm Bergeson & Campbell. If Mr Inhofe becomes the chair of the EPW Committee, ‘trying to make discussion, using this proposal as a starting point, makes sense’, she said.”...
November 11, 2014
Enhancing Oversight of Synthetic Biology under TSCA to Promote Sustainable Commercial Development
Article Featured in Industrial Biotechnology Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and Of Counsel with the Biobased and Renewable Products Advocacy Group (BRAG®), Charles M. Auer of Charles Auer & Associates, LLC, and Oscar Hernandez, Ph.D. of Oscar Hernandez & Associates, LLC, have published “Creative Adaptation: Enhancing Oversight of Synthetic Biology Under the Toxic Substances Control Act” in...
November 10, 2014
K-REACH: What You Need to Know to Do Business in South Korea in 2015
SAVE THE DATE Thursday, December 4, 2014Two webinars optimized for EU and U.S. participantsEU-focused: 6:00 a.m. – 8:00 a.m. (EST)/11:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. (GMT)U.S.-focused: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. (EST)/6:30 – 8:30 p.m. (GMT) The Toxic Chemicals Control Act (TCCA) of 1991 — the key law addressing the basic management of industrial chemicals — will be divided, as of January 1, 2015, into two regulatory schemes: South Korea’s newly minted chemical...
New ABA book edited by Lynn L. Bergeson, Global Chemical Control Handbook, Announced at Conference ChemCon the Americas 2014 brought together an international audience of over 200 industry, regulatory, and policy leaders in Chicago, Illinois, October 27-31, 2014, to go in-depth on virtually every major chemical regulatory issue worldwide. Speakers included Mike Rasenberg of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), Dr. Jeffrey Morris of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Dan...