Principal and Managing Member, Clarus Safety Consulting, LLC
May 2006 – Present
Clarus Safety Consulting is providing service to the household products, cosmetic, toiletry, OTC drug, consumer tissue, and paper industries. Services include: preparation of cosmetic ingredient dossiers for the cosmetic industry consumer commitment code; determination of product safety testing needs, writing protocols, monitoring studies at contract labs; alternative (non-animal) safety testing programs; development of safety profiles for consumer products; pesticide registration dossiers; TSCA registration dossiers; European REACH registration dossiers; development of exposure scenarios, calculation of NRSL and MADL-like numbers, calculation of av daily dose exposures for California Proposition 65; resolution of manufacturing upsets possibly affecting safety; evaluaton of manufacturing process for possible product safety issues; litigation support.
Director, Product Safety, Appleton Papers Inc.
November 2006 – December 2008
Product Safety for Appleton businesses worldwide, including carbonless, thermal. and security papers, flexible packaging for foods and medical devices, and chemical encapsulation technologies • Compliance with product safety regulations.worldwide • Establish a product safety assessment system that is incorporated into the formal stages and gates product review process.• Toxicologic evaluation of product formulations, determination of testing needs and conduct of tests • Internal company consultant in matters of dermatology, human safety testing, in vitro safety testing, product regulatory affairs. • Compliance with the European Union REACH chemicals regulations • Compliance with California Proposition 65; determination of exposure scenarios, calculation of NSRL and MADL – like numbers where regulatory levels are not listed, calculation of Average Daily Dose exposures
Senior Research Fellow and Team Leader, Product Safety at Kimberly-Clark
June 1986 – October 2006
Product safety consumer brands worldwide Kleenex, Cottonelle, Viva, Scott, Huggies, Pull-Ups, Good Nights, Depends, Kotex,New Freedom • Tox eval formulations, preclinical & clinical test protocols, supervise contract testing labs (GLP audits), eval final rpts.• Validate silicone microphysiometer to predict dermal irritation potential (a non-animal test).• Manage in vitro tox research to eliminate animal safety testing • Member Sci Advis Panel Inst In Vitro Sci, Johns Hopkins U CAAT task forces, Safety & Regul Tox Cmte & Sci Advis Cmte Personal Care Products Council (formerly CTFA), Cellulose TF Am Forest & Paper Assn, Chair Exec Cmte Inst Polyacrylate Absorbents • Manage dept computer equip • Create dept intranet pages • Help develop computer indexing system shared information.• Assist development strategies recycled & GMO materials • Expert witness product liability defenses. • Assist develop crisis mgmt training • Lecturer high schools basic tox, carcinogenesis, & internet resources.
Sr. Research Scientist, Product Safety at American Cyanamid
June 1981 – May 1986
Responsible for the product safety of Cyanamid's consumer products worldwide: Old Spice Toiletries, Pierre Cardin Toiletries, L'Air du Temps Perfumes and Fragrances, Cie Perfumes and Fragrances, La Prairie Skin Care, Breck Hair Care, Pine-Sol Household Cleaners, Combat Household Pesticides • Toxicologic evaluation of products • Determination of testing needs (clinical and pre clinical) • Dermatologic safety testing.• Develop protocols for pre clinical (animal) and clinical (human) testing; placing contracts with testing laboratories, monitoring studies evaluation of final reports; GLP audits of animal laboratories.• Determination of special packaging requirements and establishing label warning statements where necessary. • Established the first computer-based database for product safety in the consumer products division. • Interaction with hospitals, poison control centers, medical personnel.• Litigation support.• Member Phamacology & Toxicology cmte cosmetic trade association.
Education
Temple University
PhD, Physiology & Biophysics, 1982
MS, Physiology & Biophysics, 1976
Established a contract inhalation toxicology laboratory within the university that specialized in testing materials that were hard to test due to difficulty in generating a test atmosphere, dosing, or developing analytical methods to monitor the exposure environment; testing from acute through subchronic.. • Lecturer and laboratory instructor in medical physiology.
North Park University
BA, Biology, 1972
