Chemrisk.Com Area of Special Expertise

Over the past 25 years, professionals within ChemRisk^® have developed an exceptionally high level of expertise with as many as 50 different chemicals. But, in particular, we have a national and/or international reputation with several specific chemicals.

ChemRisk^® Publications

2010

Kreider, M.L., J.M. Panko, B.L. McAtee, L.I. Sweet, and B.L. Finley. 2010. Physical and chemical characterization of tire-related particles: Comparison of particles generated using different methodologies. Sci Total Environ. 408(3):652-659.

Galbraith, D.A. and D. Weill. 2010. Authors’ response to Harber et al. (2008). Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 83(1):117.

Keenan, J.J., M.H. Le, D.J. Paustenbach, and S.H. Gaffney. 2010. Lead Testing Wipes Contain Measurable Background Levels of Lead. DOI 10.1007/s00128-009-9926-y. Published online Jan 20 2010. Bull Environ Contam Toxicol.

Keenan, J.J., S.H. Gaffney, D.A. Galbraith, P. Beatty and D.J. Paustenbach. 2010. Gasoline: A complex mixture or a dangerous vehicle for benzene exposure? Chem-Biol Interact. Advance online publication January 22, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2010.01.016

Paustenbach, D.J., J.S. Knutsen, D.M. Hollins, J.E. Sahmel, and A.K. Madl. 2010. Comparison of modeled and measured concentrations of airborne benzene from the use of petroleum-based solvents spiked with low levels of benzene. Advance online publication January 22, 2010. doi:10.1016/j.cbi.2010.01.021

Widner, T.E. and S.M. Flack. 2010. Characterization of the world’s first nuclear explosion, the Trinity Test, as a source of public radiation exposure. Health Phys. 98(3):480-497.

2009

Feikin, D.R., L.M. Nguyen, K. Adazu, M. Ombok, A. Audi, L. Slutsker, and K.A. Lindblade. 2009. The impact of distance of residence from a peripheral health facility on pediatric health utilisation in rural western Kenya. Trop Med Int Health, 14(1):54-61.

Kuykendall, J.R., K.N. Mellinger, K.L. Miller, A.V. Cain, M.W. Perry, M. Bradley, E.J. Jarvi, and D.J. Paustenbach. 2009. DNA-Protein cross-links in erythrocytes of freshwater fish exposed to hexavalent chromium or divalent nickel. Arch Environ Contam Toxicol. 56(2):260-267.

Zheng, W., Y-M Jiang, Y. Zhang, W. Jiang, Z. Wang, and D.M Cowan. 2009. Chelation therapy of manganese intoxication with para-aminosalicylic acid (PAS) in Sprague–Dawley rats. Neurotoxicol. 30(2):240-248.

Galbraith DA, Weill, D. Popcorn lung and bronchiolitis obliterans: A critical appraisal. Int Arch Occup Environ Health. 82(3):407-416.

Scott, L.L.F., D.F. Staskal, E.S. Williams, W.J. Luksemburg, J.D. Urban, L.M. Nguyen, L.C. Haws, L.S. Birnbaum, D.J. Paustenbach, and M.A. Harris. 2009. Levels of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, and biphenyls in southern Mississippi catfish and estimation of potential health risks. Chemosphere 74(7):1002-1010.

Hollins, D.M., D.J. Paustenbach, K. Clark, and C.A. Mangold. 2009. A visual historical review of exposure to asbestos at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard (1962-1972). J Toxicol Environ Health B. 12(2):124-156.

Cowan, D.M., Q. Fan, Y. Zou, Z. Shi, J. Chen, M. Aschner, F.S. Rosenthal, and W. Zheng. 2009. Manganese exposure among smelting workers: Blood manganese-iron ratio as a novel tool for manganese exposure assessment. Biomarkers 14(1):3-16.

Kerger, B.D., W.J. Butler, D.J. Paustenbach, JD Zhang, and SK Li. 2009. Cancer mortality in Chinese populations surrounding an alloy plant with chromium smelting operations. J Tox Environ Health A. 72(5):329-344.

Wells, M.Y., and E.S. Williams. 2009. The transgenic mouse assay as an alternative test method for regulatory carcinogenicity studies – Implications for REACH. Reg Tox Pharm. 53(2):150-5.

Hollins, D.M., M.A. McKinley, C. Williams, A. Wiman, D. Fillos, P.S. Chapman, A.K. Madl. 2009. Beryllium and lung cancer: A weight of evidence evaluation of the toxicological and epidemiological literature. Crit Rev Tox. 39(S1):1-32.

Panko, J.M., S.H. Gaffney, A.M. Burns, K.M. Unice, M.L. Kreider, L.E. Booher, R.H. Gelatt, J.R. Marshall, and D.J. Paustenbach. (2009) Occupational Exposure to Benzene at the ExxonMobil Refinery at Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1977-2005). J Occup Environ Hyg 6(9):517-529.

Paustenbach, D.J. 2009. On the chromium reanalysis: letter to the editor. Epidemiol. 20(4):625-626.

Richter, R.O., B.L. Finley, D.J. Paustenbach, P.R.D. Williams, and P.J. Sheehan. 2009. An evaluation of short-term exposures of brake mechanics to asbestos during automotive and truck brake cleaning and machining activities. Exp Sci Environ Epidemiol. 19(5):458-474.

Williams, E.S., J. Panko, and D.J. Paustenbach. 2009. The European Union’s REACH regulation: A review of its history and requirements. Crit Rev Tox. 39(7):553-575.

Madl, A.K. and K.E. Pinkerton. 2009. Health effects of inhaled engineered and incidental nanoparticles. Crit Rev Tox. 39(8):629-658.

McAtee, B.L., E.P. Donovan, S.H. Gaffney, W. Frede, J.S. Knutsen, and D.J. Paustenbach. 2009. Historical analysis of airborne beryllium concentrations at a copper beryllium machining facility (1964-2000). Ann Occup Hyg. 53(4):373-82.

Galbraith, D.A. and D. Weill. 2009. Authors’ response to Kreiss et al. (2009). Int Arch Occup Environ Health. Advance online publication, July 30, 2009. doi: 10.1007/s00420-009-0436-3

Kuykendall J.R., S.L. Shaw, D. Paustenbach, K. Fehling, S. Kacew, and V. Kabay. 2009. Chemicals present in automobile traffic tunnels and the possible community health hazards: A review of the literature. Inhal Toxicol. 21(9): 747–792.

Madl, A.K., S.H. Gaffney, J.L. Balzer, and D.J. Paustenbach. 2009. Airborne asbestos concentrations associated with heavy equipment brake removal. Ann Occup Hyg. 53(8):839-857.

Gaffney, S.H., J.M. Panko, K.M. Unice, A.M. Burns, M.L. Kreider, R.H. Gelatt, L.E. Booher, and D.J. Paustenbach. 2009. Occupational exposure to benzene at the ExxonMobil refinery in Baytown, TX (1978-2006). J Exp Sci Env Epidemiol. Advance online publication, October 28, 2009. doi: 10.1038/jes.2009.53

Sahmel, J., K. Unice, P. Scott, D. Cowan, and D. Paustenbach. 2009. The use of multizone models to estimate an airborne chemical contaminant generation and decay profile: Occupational exposures of hairdressers to vinyl chloride in hairspray during the 1960s and 1970s. Risk Anal. 29(12):1699-1725.

Cowan, D. M., W. Zheng, Y. Zou, X. Shi, J. Chen, F. S. Rosenthal and Q. Fan (2009). "Manganese exposure among smelting workers: relationship between blood manganese-iron ratio and early onset neurobehavioral alterations." Neurotoxicology 30(6): 1214-22.

Finley, B., K. Fehling, J. Warmerdam, and E.J. Morinello. 2009. Oral bioavailability of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins/dibenzofurans in industrial soils. Hum Ecol Risk Assess. 15(6):1146-1167.