Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), is a Washington D.C. law firm focusing on conventional, biobased, and nanoscale industrial, agricultural, and specialty chemical product approval and regulation, product defense, and associated business issues. We help companies that make and use chemicals commercialize their products, maintain compliance, and gain competitive advantage as they market their products throughout the world. Our Mission is to get them to market faster and more efficiently than the competition. A true business partner with clients, B&C delivers vital expertise in business strategy development, compliance planning, product defense, policy advocacy, and related activities. B&C attorneys, scientists, and regulatory specialists find pathways of progress for you that are efficient and business-sensitive.
With a unique blend of legal, government affairs, and scientific expertise, our firm focuses on chemical products, product approvals, and regulation and associated business issues. Firm attorneys and professionals are complemented by our non- attorney consulting arms and represent and counsel individuals, business entities, trade associations, and industry coalitions around the globe.
Advocacy, compliance, and strategic services cover the full range of regulatory requirements and policies governing complex products, including:
- TSCA, FIFRA/FQPA, REACH, and other statutory matters
- FDA food contact and packaging material approval
- Registration and data compensation arbitrations
- Chemical product litigation
- Due diligence for chemical sector corporate transactions
- OSHA and GHS compliance
- Basic, specialty, and agricultural and antimicrobial chemicals
- Biotechnology, nanotechnology, and emerging transformative technologies
- Fibers
- Paints and coatings
- Plastic products
About Lynn L. Bergeson
Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), has earned an international reputation for her deep and expansive understanding of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), the European Union Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH) regulation, the Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA), and especially how these regulatory programs pertain to nanotechnology, industrial biotechnology, synthetic biology, and other emerging transformative technologies.
Ms. Bergeson employs a highly sophisticated, nuanced approach to problem solving as she assists corporations, trade associations, and business consortia to commercialize new technologies, access new markets, extend the commercial life of an efficacious chemical product, obtain a derogation of a chemical use, or secure a competitive advantage in a new market or territory. She counsels clients on a wide range of issues pertaining to product stewardship; chemical hazard, exposure, and risk assessment; risk communication; minimizing legal liability; and product lifecycle strategy.
For her work on behalf of clients, Ms. Bergeson has earned the highest rankings and accolades awarded to lawyers, with inclusion in Super Lawyers, Best Lawyers, Who’s Who Legal, Martindale Hubble, and more than 20 years in Band 1 of the Chambers & Partners USA Guide (Chambers). She served as chair of the American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources and as chair of the International Bar Association (IBA) Agriculture and Food Section. She has served on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute (ELI), the NanoBusiness Commercialization Association, and is a recent past President of the Product Stewardship Society. Ms. Bergeson is a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers (ACOEL) and serves as a Regent and on its Executive Committee.
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