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Dennis Paustenbach

Dennis J. Paustenbach PhD, CIH, DABT, (born Oct 29, 1952) is an American scientist, businessman, researcher, and author. Dennis is the senior scientist and head of the risk assessment group at TRC Companies which is an international engineering firm. Paustenbach’s group risk methods to characterize occupational and environmental health hazards. He is the founder and former president of ChemRisk, a consulting firm specializing in the use of toxicology, exposure science, epidemiology and health physics to characterize the hazards of chemicals in soil, air, water, food, sediments and consumer products. He was, for about 4 years, a Group Vice-President at Exponent; a publicly traded consulting firm.

Paustenbach has published approximately 320 peer-reviewed papers in scientific journals, about 55 book chapters, and has presented nearly 350 papers at various scientific conferences during his career. His widely read textbook on health risk assessment is in its third edition (issued June 2024). He has given expert testimony in many courts regarding the health hazards posed by dioxins, talc, asbestos, benzene, lead, chromium, beryllium, formaldehyde, carbon monoxide, cobalt, chlorinated solvents, kratom (and other herbals), PFAS chemicals, food additives and other chemicals. Provided by Wikipedia