Katie Skaggs, a partner in Keller and Heckman LLP’s food and drug practice, is an expert in the regulation of food contact materials in a host of jurisdictions. Katie helps companies evaluate new food contact materials, such as plastics, biopolymers, paper, adhesives, coatings, additives, and recycled materials, and handles premarket submissions for these materials around the globe.  She also manages post-market issues for food contact materials.  Katie advises on state legislation that impacts packaging, including California’s Proposition 65, as well as laws on extended producer responsibility for packaging, bans on PFAS in food packaging, and minimum recycled content mandates.  Katie is the co-host of “Food & Chemicals Unpacked,” Keller and Heckman’s podcast regarding the legal and scientific issues surrounding the food, chemical, packaging, and related consumer product industries.