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Dennis J. Paustenbach PhD, CIH, DABT, (Born Oct 29, 1952) is an American scientist, businessman, researcher, and author. Dennis is currently President of Paustenbach and Associates, which is a consulting firm who uses risk assessment techniques 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 and risk assessment 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 of Exponent.
Paustenbach has published nearly 300 peer reviewed papers in scientific journals, about 50 book chapters, and has presented nearly 350 papers at various scientific conferences during his career. He was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Purdue University in 2006[1] and a Doctor of Engineering from the Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in 2007.[2] He has given expert testimony in many courts regarding the health hazards posed by dioxins, talc, asbestos, benzene, lead, chromium, beryllium, carbon monoxide, cobalt, chlorinated solvents, and other chemicals.
- ^ "2006 Honorary Degree Dennis J. Paustenbach". Purdue University.
- ^ "2007 Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology : OneHundred and Twenty-Ninth Commencement". Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.