Environmental Contamination: Forever Chemicals and the Courts 

Recorded Tuesday, October 1, 2024
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2.0 General CLE Credits 
VOD_2024029
Registration fee: $85
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Learn about the applicable laws available to address damages arising from the exposure to toxic environmental contaminants, using "forever chemicals" as the example.  Topics include:

*  What are "forever chemicals," why are they bad, and how are people exposed

*  Applicable laws and administrative agencies

*  Which laws govern, including example torts action and action under administrative law

Faculty:
Sandra Daussin, AVA Law Group

Sandra is a second career attorney and regulatory scientist chemist with 25+ years’ work experience in environmental laws and regulations. She has a chemistry degree from Georgetown University and was valedictorian of her evening law school class at North Carolina Central University.

Sandra started her career working under contract with the US EPA Offices of Water, Solid Waste, and Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. Sandra left this work to open her own regulatory consulting firm where she helped her clients achieve US and global registrations of agricultural chemicals, as well as genetically engineered crops. Her industry clients included Bayer CropScience, BASF, DuPont, Rhone- Poulenc, Syngenta Biotechnology, Inc., and others. She also has worked as an employee of BASF in the roles of Regulatory Quality Manager, Regulatory Expert Team Lead and Regulatory Science Lab Manager.

After graduating from law school in 2020, Sandra worked in a small law firm with eleven other attorneys in Arizona. Her
primary role there was to support civil rights, torts, medical malpractice, and child custody litigation. Sandra has also worked in a general practice firm in Alaska and where she was responsible for all stages of litigation, primarily in family law, property dispute, and probate issues. Sandra now works with AVA Law Group supporting the mass torts litigation team handling the Camp Lejeune Justice Act claims.

Sandra has a special interest in emerging chemical contaminates of food and water. She has also authored and filed a Citizen’s Petition to the US FDA to set tolerances for PFSA residues in foods on behalf of other petitioners seeking FDA’s intervention on this pressing issue. Sandra is licensed in North Carolina, Arizona (inactive), and Alaska.

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