Steve Barton is a Board-certified (DABT) and Eurotox registered (ERT) toxicologist with more than 30 years experience, and speciality of developmental and reproductive toxicology.
Acting independently on behalf of the customer and offering:
Study design including amendments to standard (ICH/OECD/EPA guideline) designs based on expected pharmacological/class-based considerations or to follow up previous equivocal findings
Study monitoring to ensure compliance with GLP and early availability of interim findings and allowing adaption of pre-clinical programme if findings so require
Data review and interpretation, including a detailed understanding of procedures, and their inherent limitations, permitting expert insight into the validity, strength and accuracy of the conclusions
Report writing when in-house staff are unavailable
Critical peer review of reports
Expert overview of toxicology results from multiple studies to produce an informed overall summary
Selection of suitable laboratories for study placement
Consideration of endocrine vs non-endocrine reproductive findings
Chemical Safety Reports for REACH registration
Chemical classification under Directive 67/548/EEC (now Global Harmonized System (GHS) and critical to REACH). Experienced with distinguishing maternally toxic, vs developmentally toxic dose levels
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