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RICHARD TROAST, PhD

Troast Environmental Consulting, LLC
Phone: (540) 972-5967 Cell: 703-627-3521
Website: www.TroastEnvirotox.com
Email: [email protected]

AREAS OF EXPERTISE • Toxicity of Lead and Lead-Based Paint • Environmental Sciences
• Toxicology of Metals • Environmental Effects of Toxic Chemicals
• Laboratory QA / QC • Environmental Assessment

PROFILE Dr. Troast and associates provides toxicological consulting assistance to attorneys, public interest groups,
local and foreign governments and private citizens. Dr. Troast has over 30 years’ experience in pesticides,
hazardous chemicals, remedial site cleanups (i.e. Superfund), and toxic chemical identification and regulation.
His specialty is lead toxicity and exposure, especially from lead paint and contaminated water. He has
published in peer reviewed journals his findings on lead and its risk. Dr. Troast has been accepted as an expert
under both Frye and Daubert standards. He has testified in numerous depositions and trials.

Dr. Troast has used his extensive experience to provide technical assessments which lay out the risks and
exposures to populations of adults or children from contaminated soil and water. Dr. Troast’s skills in the use
of risk models, especially for lead allow him to make recommendations for remediation of hazardous waste
sites at EPA and to support individual clients concerned with lead paint and lead wastes around residences and
neighborhoods. Dr. Troast received numerous awards while at the USEPA for advancements in Science.

During his career at the USEPA he authored and edited EPA reviews of publications describing the effects
of lead and other chemical hazards. Prior to his work in the Hazardous Waste programs of EPA, Dr. Troast was
a senior manager and scientist in the chemical assessment program of the Office of Toxic Substances at EPA.
His involvement was direct and hands on and was instrumental in providing assessments of many toxic and
high production/exposure chemicals. These assessments lead to the chemical industry updating their data files
using approved test methods which included good laboratory practices and QA/QC programs. Upon leaving
the USEPA, Dr. Troast has also participated in international environmental activities focusing on improving
hazardous waste control in the Middle East and has presented seminars in Europe on these topics. He has
authored, co-authored or presented many reports on methods for identifying bioindicators of exposure and
toxicity of lead and other metals.

SERVICES PROVIDED Expert witness representation for lead and other hazardous chemicals. Dr. Troast can also conduct broad
based comprehensive reviews for assessing exposures to at hazardous waste sites such as National Priority List
(Superfund) sites and areas of concern to local populations such as drinking water supplies. Dr. Troast can also
provide representation for public and private organizations before regulatory and advisory of governmental
organizations.

EXPERIENCE Dr. Troast has represented both plaintiff and defense attorneys in litigations of experts to metals and other
hazardous chemicals.

EDUCATION • Ph.D. George Mason University, 2006, Environmental Science and Toxicology
• M.S. West Virginia University, 1971, Biochemistry
• B.A. West Virginia University, 1969, Biology

PROFESSIONAL Society of Toxicology; American Chemical Society; American Association for the
MEMBERSHIPS Advancement of Science; Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry

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