Food & Chemicals Unpacked Podcast

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Food & Chemicals Unpacked is your go-to podcast for hot topics in the food and chemical industry.
Join our hosts, Keller and Heckman Partners Mark Thompson and Katie Skaggs, as they provide a bird’s eye view of the emerging legal and scientific issues surrounding the food, chemical, packaging, and related consumer product industries in an easily digestible and accessible format.
Food & Chemicals Unpacked provides clear and concise updates on legislative developments, new regulations, and other non-governmental initiatives that impact these industries. Each episode presents critical information on these topics along with supporting resources from Keller and Heckman’s websites, including packaginglaw.com, The Daily Intake (our food blog), and The Continuum of Risk (our tobacco and e-vapor blog).
Episodes
8. | The Notorious NAD: Challenge Accepted? The 8th episode of Food & Chemicals Unpacked dives into the inner workings of the National Advertising Division (NAD), the advertising industry’s self-regulatory mini court. Keller and Heckman attorneys Katie Bond and Samuel (Sam) Butler, both from our Advertising and Promotion practice, join us to provide an overview of all things NAD. We cover its origin, the structure of NAD proceedings, the interaction between the NAD and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), what types of companies participate in NAD challenges, the appeals process, and more. The episode highlights the findings of a new analysis by Katie and Sam on changing outcomes at the NAD over the past few decades. |
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Pit Stop at Chevron: Will We See a Difference in Deference? |
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Laying Claim: FTC’s Green Guides |
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Extended Producer Responsibility: EPR You Ready? |
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Blowing Smoke: FDA’s Evolving Regulation of Tobacco and Nicotine Products |
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Off the Shelf: An Inside Look at the Infant Formula Shortage |
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Chasing Arrows – The EU’s Plastic Recycling Scheme |
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PFAS and Furious Welcome to the first episode of Food & Chemicals Unpacked! Today’s episode focuses on the regulation of PFAS in food packaging applications. This incredibly important issue affects a huge number of products in various markets. We provide an overview of these chemistries and summarize developments in the United States at both the Federal and State level on PFAS regulation. Additionally, our team discusses some of the recent trade press that impacts food, e-cigarettes, and the chemical industry. |
Please see our show notes (here) for further information on the topics discussed and online articles with additional details on these issues. |
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Welcome to Food & Chemicals Unpacked An introduction to our a la carte podcast covering all things relating to the food and chemical industries. Food & Chemicals Unpacked will help you dig into the legal requirements and science surrounding food, packaging, chemicals, tobacco products, and much more. Learn how these products are regulated and insights on current news and developments in this space. |
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About the Hosts
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Mark Thompson counsels companies and trade associations on global compliance requirements applicable to finished foods, food additives, food packaging materials, cosmetics, commercial chemicals, and associated labeling in Asia, the Americas, and the European Union. He also advises clients on the regulation of drugs and genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in Asia. |
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Katie Skaggs is an expert in the regulation of food contact materials in a host of jurisdictions including the U.S., EU, South America (particularly the MERCOSUR bloc), Canada, China, eastern Asia, India, the Middle East (GCC), Australia, and New Zealand. Katie assists companies in bringing to market new food contact materials, such as plastics, biopolymers, paper, adhesives, coatings, recycled materials, and components of these materials (antioxidants, colorants, and other additives and processing aids), through submissions to government agencies in the U.S. and abroad. She manages post-market issues for food contact substances, such as recalls and accidental adulterations, and advises on environmental claims for food contact materials, as well as compliance with state laws like California's Proposition 65. View Katie's full bio. |