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SV's Toxicology/Risk Assessment Division is nationally
recognized as providing the highest level of expertise. SV has provided
toxicological services and litigation support to the U.S. Department of Justice,
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Defense, and numerous
industries.
All toxicologists in SV's Toxicology/Risk Assessment Division
hold Ph.D. degrees and have faculty appointments at major U.S.
universities. Their areas of expertise include the following:
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Human
Health Toxicology;
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Expert
Witness Testimony and Toxic Tort Technical Support;
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Human Health Risk Assessment;
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Risk
Management;
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Industrial
Hygiene;
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Occupational
Medicine;
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Development
of Environmental Sampling Plans;
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Statistical Analyses of Environmental Sampling;
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Training,
Seminars, and Workshops;
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Chemical
Fate and Transport Analyses;
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Negotiation
Support with Regulatory Agencies;
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Pharmacology,
Pathology, and Physiology Studies; and
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Risk-Based
Cleanup of Contaminated Sites.
SV
is a small, woman-owned business. SV's
Principal Toxicologist, Dr. Richard DeGrandchamp, is an expert in toxicology and risk assessment who has
more than 23 years of professional experience.
He has served on numerous scientific review panels and has been a
toxicological consultant for U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA),
Department of the Navy (DON), Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense
(DOD), and Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection, as well as many
chemical, pharmaceutical, and manufacturing companies.
Dr. DeGrandchamp has conducted or reviewed more than 300 human health risk assessments
regulated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and
Liability Act (CERCLA; Superfund); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA);
and Underground Storage Tank (UST) programs. He has been the lead negotiator in over 200 regulatory
meetings and provides expert witness testimony in toxic tort cases involving
toxicological and medical claims resulting from toxic chemical exposure.
Dr. DeGrandchamp has also provided legal support on toxicological and risk assessment
issues for EPA. He has been selected to serve on the U.S. Department of
Justice expert witness unit where he is an expert witness and rebuttal witness
on numerous cases. He has served on numerous expert scientific panel and
authored guidance documents for conducting health assessments for USEPA, and the
Navy Bureau of Medicine, Navy Environmental Health Center.
Dr.
DeGrandchamp provided the U.S. Department of Justice with expert support on both
its AK Steel and Metal Bank cases. Dr. DeGrandchamp holds two appointments
in the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
E-mail
SV's Toxicology Division
Curriculum
Vitae
available upon request.

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