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:

• Human Health Toxicology;

• Expert Witness Testimony and Toxic Tort Technical Support;

• Human Health Risk Assessment;

• Risk Management;

• Industrial Hygiene;

• Occupational Medicine;

• Development of Environmental Sampling Plans;

• Statistical Analyses of Environmental Sampling;

• Training, Seminars, and Workshops;

• Chemical Fate and Transport Analyses;

• Negotiation Support with Regulatory Agencies;

• Pharmacology, Pathology, and Physiology Studies; and

• 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.

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