Joan Sylvain Baughan

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Joan Sylvain Baughan joined Keller and Heckman in 1991. She practices food and drug law, focusing on U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and comparable international regulation of food contact materials, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices.

In addition to practicing in the firm's Washington office, Ms. Baughan spent three years counseling foreign and domestic clients from the firm's Brussels, Belgium office. While there, she developed an expertise in the regulation of food packaging materials and medicinal products under European Union and Member State legislation.

Ms. Baughan has a scientific background in microbiology and medical technology. She was general counsel for The Society of the Plastics Industry, Inc.'s Food, Drug and Cosmetics Packaging Materials Committee, and represented the committee before U.S. agencies and their international counterparts. She also is frequently a speaker at International Conferences on various FDA and related regulatory topics.

Education

University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.S., 1984
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, B.S.M.T., 1985
Catholic University of America, J.D., 1991

Bar Admissions

District of Columbia
Massachusetts

Memberships

American Bar Association; International Bar Association; Editorial Board of Euro Watch