Expert No. 19661 – MO
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Expertise Description: Packaging consultant to the food, cosmetics, medical devices, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries. Knowledgeable of containers, closures, packaging components, polymer films, additives, lamination, processing and packaging equipment / development, manufacturing and packing technologies, defective packaging, packaging of hazardous products, defective labeling - omissions and instructions, warnings - products and machinery, plastics, polymers, corrugated paper, foil components, quality control - validation, processing, manufacturing, material handling equipment, Federal Regulations - CFR, Federal Register, prior expert witness experience - consultations, depositions, and courtroom testimony.
Areas of Expertise:
Representative Litigation Experience:
- Products liability.
- Products contamination/degradation.
- Defective products/packaging.
- Negligence by employer or employee.
- Patent infringement - mechanical/graphic.
- Lack of proper warnings/instructions/omissions.
- Federal regulations - Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code.
Representative Consulting Services and/or Projects:
- Consulting engineering for foods, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, and chemicals.
Licenses & Certifications:
| Institute of Packaging Professionals |
| American College of Forensic Examiners |
| Certified Expert Witness in Federal Courts |
| Certified Expert Witness in Civil Courts |
Education:
| Degree | Subject | Institution | |
|---|---|---|---|
| MS | Food Chemistry and Food Engineering | University of Missouri | |
| BS | Food Chemistry and Food Engineering | University of Missouri |
Professional Appointment/Association Affiliations:
- Academy of Science, St. Louis, MO
- Allied Drug and Chemical Association
- Missouri Waste Control Coalition
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Chemical Society
- National Ethical Pharmaceutical Association
- American Society of Testing Materials
- National Packaging Engineering Consultants Association
- New York Academy of Sciences
- American Technion Society
- Institute of Packaging Professionals
- Association of Consulting Chemists and Engineers
- Phi Delta Chi, Pharmaceutical Fraternity
- Engineers Club of St. Louis
- Industrial Pharmacists Association
- Institute of Food Technologists
- Society of Cosmetic Chemists
- Society of Packaging Engineers
- St. Louis Pharmacists Association
- International Society of Technical and Environmental Professionals
- American Nutraceutical Association
- Missouri Academy of Science
Awards & Honors:
| Recognized in a wide variety of Who's Who publications. |
Other Career Highlights:
| Contributing author to a book on packaging forensics. |
| Lecturer at a university. |
| Presenter on packaging and food industry topics. |
