Agenda
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Registration
- Session 1: TSCA
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Welcome
Chemical Watch
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Keynote Keynote address
Global Regulatory Trends
Darrell BoverhofDirector of Global Toxicology and Product Regulatory Services, The Dow Chemical Company -
TSCA at 3: A panel session
- Status of Section 5 new chemical review process: improvements, new interpretations; on-going challenges
- Risk evaluations under TSCA Section 6: emerging issues, recurrent themes, and on-going challenges
- OCSPP’s improved organizational capacity, enhanced transparency, and on-going institutional challenges
- TSCA Section 4: is there mandatory testing in our future?
Bob SussmanCounsel, Safer Chemicals Healthy Families, and Principal, Sussman and Associates, United States -
Q&A
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Refreshments
- Session 2: Emerging state regulatory trends
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The myth of preemption: State bans are alive and well
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Current State-level issues: A panel discussion including Q&A
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Lunch
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Please choose from one of two break-out sessions for the afternoon;
Session 3 & 4: Other regulatory and non-regulatory developments in the USA and Canada
or Session 5: CBI/Data sharing/Supply chain transparency
- Session 3: Other regulatory and non-regulatory developments
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OSHA Harmonisation
- OSHA’s alignment with GHS through its Hazard Communication Standard
- OSHA’s efforts in maintaining alignment with GHS
- OSHA’s international efforts – this will include working with trade partners and at the UN subcommittee.
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An Update on Issues in FDA’s Food Contact Substance (FCS) Program
- Update on OFAS/DFCS realignment
- Update on electronic submissions to OFAS
- Update on administrative and technical issue on FCSs
Allan BaileyBranch Chief, Chemistry Review Branch, Division of Food Contact Substances, U.S. Food and Drug Administration -
Emerging non traditional markets
- Biostimulant regulation: state and federal challenges to both regulators and industry
- Progress at EPA: Guidance
- Congress and Farm Bill
- USDA report to Congress
- Next steps
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Q&A
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Refreshments
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Panel discussion: Ingredient transparency and transparency in the supply chain
Jim JonesExecutive Vice President of Strategic Alliances and Industry Relations, Consumer Specialty Products AssociationEunice HeathCorporate Director of Sustainability, The Dow Chemical Company - Session 4: Developments from Canada
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Updates from Canada and the Chemicals Management Plan
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Canada's approach to promote transparency in chemicals management
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Enforcement in the US and Canada
Greg SullivanDirector, Waste and Chemical Enforcement Division, US EPA, Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, USAHannah RogersExecutive Director, Environmental Enforcement Directorate, Enforcement Branch,, Environment and Climate Change Canada, Canada -
Q&A
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Close of day one