ChemRisk, Inc.

Contact: E. Spencer Williams, Ph.D.

10375 Richmond Avenue
Suite 350
Houston, TX 77042

Phone: +1 713 974 6200
Fax: +1 713 974 6111
Email: swilliams@N0SPAM.chemrisk.com
Web: http://www.chemrisk.com

ChemRisk is a consulting firm providing state-of-the-art toxicology, industrial hygiene, epidemiology, and risk assessment services to organizations that confront public health, occupational health, and environmental challenges.

Professionals on the ChemRisk team have a long-standing reputation for thorough scientific analysis and for sharing results in the peer-reviewed scientific literature.

Many of the over 200 papers published by scientists in the firm are frequently referenced in both litigation and regulatory decision-making.

Our team of scientists has a broad array of regulatory experience, including work on the HPV Challenge Program, derivation of environmental screening levels for a variety of chemicals in many media, and compliance with rules on occupational exposures.

In the EU, the REACH Regulation (1907/2006) imposes new regulatory burdens on manufacturers and importers of substances and articles. The impact of this Regulation is already reverberating throughout the world. Registration is required for most substances manufactured or imported in quantities greater than 1 tonne per year. The registration dossier will include a suite of toxicology and ecotoxicology data; available data will be shared among registrants of the same substance through a Substance Information Exchange Forum.

For substances manufactured or imported in quantities greater than 10 tonnes per year, Chemical Safety Assessments are required for each identified use.

Other regulatory mechanisms created by REACH include Evaluation, Authorization, and Restriction, each of which will require scientific support to the chemicals manufacturing sector.

Though the regulatory burden nominally falls on EU-based industries, companies in the US and elsewhere who export substances or items into the EU will be affected by the new rules.

As one of the foremost consulting firms in human health risk assessment, and drawing on our experience in regulatory compliance, ChemRisk is offering REACH compliance services.

These services include:
1) Identification of obligations under the REACH Regulation;
2) Data gap analysis and evaluation of data quality;
3) Design, proposal, and conduct of toxicology studies to address data gaps;
4) Generation of Chemical Safety Assessments and the Chemical Safety Report;
5) Surveillance of REACH-related developments, and;
6) Scientific support through evaluation, authorization, restriction, and appeals procedures.

Our experience in managing consortium-based projects, regulatory compliance issues, and broad toxicology data sets, combined with our emphasis on high-quality deliverables and outstanding customer service make us a firm uniquely suited to assist with your REACH compliance and consulting needs.