ERM at the SESHA 43rd Virtual Annual Symposium

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ERM is sponsoring this year’s virtual SESHA Annual Symposium and presenting at the PFAS session on April 28th.

April 28

PFAS Hiding in Plain Sight: New Compliance Challenges for Tech

Time:

12:00 – 3:00 pm ET

Manufacturers face increasing pressure on per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their products: new reporting requirements will show PFAS hiding in plain sight in purchased materials; public outrage over PFAS grows; and regulators around the world are moving to ban or restrict PFAS in products in a dizzying onslaught of regulations on different PFAS chemicals and different PFAS uses.

ERM Technical Fellow Kate Sellers and ERM Consultant Richelle Romanchik will lead this talk to help listeners to understand the compliance challenges and business risks that may affect their operations. They will come away with practical information on how to manage those challenges to minimize their risks.

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Kate Sellers

ERM Technical Fellow

ERM Technical Fellow Kate Sellers leads multidisciplinary consulting teams that help global companies to meet their business goals through effective product stewardship and sustainability. As an author, she has explored the challenges of recognizing and responding appropriately to emerging environmental issues relating to chemicals and nanomaterials; most recently, she co-authored the book “Emerging Contaminants: Anticipating Developments” (CRC Press, December 2019) which explores fundamental questions about safer chemistry.

Kate has used the content of her books to generate broader conversations through teaching courses at Tufts University, Indiana University, and Harvard University Extension School. She is a founding Board member of the Product Stewardship Society and served as President from 2017 to 2019.

Richelle Romanchik

ERM Consultant

ERM Consultant Richelle Romanchik is a consultant based in ERM’s DC office and a background in public health, focusing on environmental health sciences and policy. For the past three years, she has been working across product stewardship, environmental hazard assessments, and lifecycle analyses projects.

Richelle has experience in the public sector and the manufacturing, technology, pharmaceutical, chemical, and consumer goods sectors. As a consultant, Richelle focuses on data analysis and visualization, product stewardship, hazard and risk assessments, and change management.