March 29, 2024 - FDA Announces PFAS Elimination, We Have Questions

03/29/24 • 13 min

On this questions episode we discuss the FDA's Announcement that food packaging containing certain PFAS is no longer being sold in the US. Hosts Tom Simmons and Matt Wallace summarize the FDA's announcement and discuss what questions it raises for us as professionals working in the environmental, health, and safety industry.

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Class Actions and PFAS, an Interview with Brown Rudnick LLP

Host Tom Simmons is joined by our guests from the law firm Brown Rudnick LLP, Partner Kyle Johnson and Counsel Anthony J. Boccamazzo, as well as HRP's CEO Dan Titus, to discuss PFAS in the context of class action lawsuits.

Perhaps you've been struck, like us, by the similarities between class action lawsuit advertising for PFAS related injuries and asbestos related mesothelioma. It got us interested in the history of similar class action lawsuits and what that could tell us about the future of PFAS litigation.

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April 4, 2024 - Courts Overturn EPA's Ban on PFAS Leeching Containers

Hosts Matt and Tom take a look at the overturned PFAS ban on PFAS leeching containers. In 2020 the EPA banned Inhance Technologies containers, due to a manufacturing process that causes the containers to leech PFAS. Earlier this year, the 5th Cricut Court of Appeals overturned that ban. Here are our thoughts.

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