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Caleb Holland brings a wealth of knowledge in food and drug regulatory law to his clients, with experience counseling over a dozen Fortune 500 companies across North America, the European Union, Latin America, and Asia, where he represents clients in the chemicals, food and beverage, consumer products, cosmetics, and medical device industries. Caleb provides analysis of current and upcoming chemical regulations, and has experience with regulatory filings, requests for information, deficiency letters, and providing rulemaking comments.
Caleb’s practice covers food contact and packaging materials regulations applicable to a wide range of products regulated by the FDA, USDA, and international regulatory bodies including those in China, Japan, and the European Union. He has assisted clients with establishing food contact compliance status through avenues such as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS) determinations, Food Contact Notifications (FCNs), and others. He has additional experience in reviewing food marketing/labeling claims to ensure compliance with state and federal law and to minimize risk of litigation.
Caleb has a background in cell and molecular biology, and has conducted research involving nanotechnology and neural immunology. Combined with his graduate study in Global Health policy, Caleb is uniquely positioned to advise clients on scientific legal matters in practical, business-focused terms.
• Scientific Evaluator in the Food Packaging Materials and Incidental Additives Section of the Bureau of Chemical Safety at Health Canada since 2006.
• Our work includes conducting evaluation of the chemical safety of food packaging materials and Incidental Additives.
• Received a Bachelor in Science Honours Chemistry Co-operative Education Program at the University of Ottawa, Canada.
Ralph leverages more than four decades of
federal and state regulatory experience to help clients navigate the ever-evolving, complex web of key regulatory issues involving food safety, labeling and packaging.
Ralph regularly assists corporate and individual clients, including food and beverage companies, in a wide variety of matters, including regulatory and legislative proceedings, contracts, and litigation. He helps clients establish compliance with the laws and regulations administered by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), US Department of Agriculture (USDA), the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and comparable state authorities.
His clients benefit from his diverse legal insight from having previously served as a senior policy analyst for the FDA. Ralph
has advised countless corporations and trade associations with respect to federal, state and international legal and regulatory
compliance.
Ralph played a leading role in the adoption and implementation of legislation and regulations creating the Food-Contact
Substance Notification process and streamlining the FDA process for approving food packaging while ensuring the safety
of the packaged food. Prior to his work at the FDA, Ralph spent more than 20 years in firm leadership at a law firm in Washington, D.C. There, he led a team of 25 lawyers and food scientists focused on FDA and international regulation of food packaging while also serving as managing partner and on the firm’s management committee.
Dr. Malcolm Driffield has over 25 years’ experience in the field of analytical chemistry, providing advice and guidance on the analytical techniques used to investigate problems across a number of commodities and Industries including food, beverages, packaging and food contact materials. During his 16 years at a UK Government lab, he gained widespread experience in analytical methodologies used for the determination of chemical contaminants in foods and food contact materials, including an extensive knowledge of non-targeted analysis techniques used for the determination of non-intentionally added substances (NIAS).
In November 2018 Dr Driffield took up the position of Managing Scientist in the Chemical Regulation and Food Safety Team at Exponent International, a multi-disciplinary engineering and scientific consulting firm, and now specializes in technical and regulatory problem solving, assisting businesses to gain authorization for products to be used in different global markets, and providing advice and guidance on analytical techniques used to investigate problems, and the interpretation of information rich data sets determined by modern analytical techniques.
A member of the FoodChain ID Executive Leadership Team, Kevin is an experienced regulatory attorney who has worked and consulted in the food and consumer products space for 25 years. He advises some of the world’s largest manufacturers on food additive, food contact and supply chain compliance challenges. He has headed international consulting projects on four continents over two decades and is responsible for the content of FoodChain ID’s regulatory compliance products. Prior to FoodChain ID’s acquisition of Decernis (of which Kevin was a founder), he was responsible for regulatory content and was Executive Director of the global advisory services team.
With more than 10 years seniority in the FCM field, working as a specialist sales manager also for multinational companies, and a degree in Biotechnology, Lisa created her own Consultancy Company less than two years ago. She is one of the main key contacts in Western Europe for enterprises wanting to work on their Quality Systems to enhance quality consciousness of processes, products in terms of the generation of chemical risks for people and for the environment. Her technical background allows her to link the requirements and the effectiveness of analysis requested.
Huqiu Zhang holds a PhD in organic chemistry. She provides regulatory and technical consultation to consumer product and food industries, chemical and food contact material industries, and their supply chains in the areas of chemical safety, global regulatory compliance, and packaging sustainability. Her expertise includes regulatory compliance strategies and implementation; new materials and recycled materials pre-market clearance, approval, and compliance; supply chain chemical management and Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP); business due diligence, chemical hazard identification, and exposure and risk assessment.
Huqiu is a principal at Sevee & Maher Engineers, based in Chicago office. Her more than 25 years of working experience extends to the whole supply chain of food packaging and consumer products, working with chemical, material and compounding manufacturers, food/beverage company, and Testing, Inspection and Certification (TIC) company.
Huqiu played a critical role in opening a technical communication channel between the US FDA and China MOH agencies in 2006. She is a long-standing contributor to the Journal of Plastic Film & Sheeting. Huqiu has frequently been invited to speak as an industry expert at professional conferences, with the most recent as speaker during 2023 International Molded Fiber Association Conference. She is on the Board of Technical Advisor for Zymtronix, and a past board member for industry associations.
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Tina Robertson is a Senior Regulatory Affairs Manager, Food Contact Materials at knoell USA LLC, based out of Chicago. She provides regulatory support and to ensure compliance of food contact materials, reviews product compositions in accordance with global regulations, and prepares registration dossiers of food contact materials (FCM) in USA, EU, and Asia. She has a law degree from the University of Alabama, School of Law and is a member of the Illinois state bar. She has a background in assessing and maintaining regulatory compliance for the food contact consumer goods industry in a variety of markets including US and EU as well as years of industry experience in a compliance role for food contact packaging ranging from plastic dairy closures to infant formula lids.
Alistair manages the Food Packaging Safety Section within Smithers. This involves advising clients on the safety legislation which applies to food packaging in a wide range of different countries throughout the world and coordinating work programmes to ensure that clients' products meet these requirements. His expertise spans all the EU countries, USA, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Israel, Russia and all the South American countries.
Alistair graduated with a degree and PhD in Chemistry from Birmingham University. After working for BP and the Department of Health, he joined Smithers in 1994, taking up his current position in 1995.
Henrik Jungclas is a Subject Matter Expert for Food Contact Materials at FoodChain ID. Prior to his recent position he has worked as a Regulatory Affairs Manager and internal auditor for quality and hygiene at Tetra Pak, Weidenhammer and Sonoco Consumer Products Europe since 2006.
He is chair of the Food Contact group of the German Paper Converting Association and co-author of various books in the area of Food Contact Materials and Hygiene management. He was an external expert to the BfR Commission subgroup Paper & Board from 2019 until 2022. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from the Phillips-University Marburg. His main interests are global compliance and environmental assessments of Food contact materials.
