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</font></div><div><div class="widgetbody clearfix sm-mt-1" style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 25px 40px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="headline-container" style="margin-top: 10px;"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 1.2;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">How Big Ag Infiltrated EPA and Made a Mockery of Science</font></h1></div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="post-author-list" style="margin-top: 10px; display: inline-block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div class="post-author" style="display: inline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/u/nicole_dalessandro" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /></font><div class="post-authoravatar image" style="background-position: center center; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; display: inline-block; z-index: 0; border-radius: 100%; object-fit: cover; width: 31px; height: 31px; vertical-align: middle; background-image: url("https://ecowatch.com/res/avatars/default");"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/u/nicole_dalessandro" style="text-decoration-line: none;" /></font></div>&nbsp;<a href="https://www.ecowatch.com/u/nicole_dalessandro" class="post-authorname" style="text-decoration-line: none; display: inline-block; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.2;">Nicole D'Alessandro</a></div></div><span class="post-date" style="margin-top: 10px; display: inline-block; line-height: 1;">Jun. 06, 2014 09:57AM ESTE</span></div><div class="widgetbody clearfix sm-mt-1" style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 25px 40px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Earlier this year, in an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">exposé</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em style="">The New Yorker</em>, Rachel Aviv detailed the story of Syngenta, an agribusiness firm that was sued by the community water systems of six states in a class-action lawsuit over the firm’s herbicide&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2011/11/15/common-herbicide-linked-to-cancer-and-hormone-disruption/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">atrazine</a>.</font></div><div class="widgetbody clearfix sm-mt-1" style="margin-bottom: 10px; padding: 25px 40px 10px;"><div class="body js-expandable clearfix js-listicle-body css-listicle-body-1881919074" style="margin-top: -15px; line-height: 1.5;"><div class="body-description" style="clear: both;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Atrazine is the second most commonly used herbicide in the U.S. and is used on more than 50 percent of all corn crops. It is one of Syngenta’s most profitable chemicals with sales of more than $3 million a year. Banned in the EU, atrazine remains on the market in the U.S. despite scores of scientific publications demonstrating its role in abnormal sexual development. Almost insoluble in water, atrazine contaminates drinking water supplies at 30 times the concentration demonstrated to cause&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/11/111128121549.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">severe sexual abnormalities in animal models</a>. It is&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2011/11/tyrone-hayes-atrazine-syngenta-feud-frog-endangered" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">estimated</a>&nbsp;that 30 million Americans are exposed to dangerous levels of atrazine.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Recently unsealed court documents from the lawsuit have&nbsp;<a href="http://100r.org/2013/06/pest-control-syngentas-secret-campaign-to-discredit-atrazines-critics/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">disclosed</a>&nbsp;how Syngenta launched a multimillion-dollar campaign to disrepute and suppress scientific research, and influence the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to prevent a ban on atrazine.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Tyrone Hayes, a professor of integrative biology at&nbsp;<a href="http://www.berkeley.edu/index.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">UC Berkeley</a>&nbsp;has demonstrated in his research that atrazine leads to health problems, reproductive issues and birth defects. Hayes is a vocal proponent of legislative action to ban the dissemination of atrazine in water supplies. The court documents showed that Syngenta specifically attacked Hayes’ work with its smear campaign.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition to smear campaigns, Syngenta hired a private detective agency to look into the personal backgrounds of scientists on an advisory panel at the EPA, the judge presiding over the lawsuit and Hayes. The documents also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/776820/how_global_chemical_giant_syngenta_paid_third_party_pundits_spin_the%22news%22_on_atrazine" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">reveal</a>&nbsp;a host of third-party organizations and independent "experts" who were on Syngenta’s payroll and supplied with Syngenta’s data in order to make public statements or write op-ed pieces in support of atrazine. Often, these experts were supplied directly with material that company employees edited or wrote.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta’s Coverup</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It all started in 1997 when Hayes was employed by Syngenta to study atrazine, which was under review by EPA. Hayes’ experimental research on the developmental growth of frogs began to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2011/11/tyrone-hayes-atrazine-syngenta-feud-frog-endangered" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">reveal</a>&nbsp;that even at levels of atrazine as low as 0.1 parts per billion (ppb), the chemical was capable of causing males to develop as hermaphrodites. Some males developed female organs and were even capable of mating with normal males and producing eggs. As reported in top peer-reviewed journals such as&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/02/12/0909519107.abstract" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">PNAS</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v419/n6910/full/419895a.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Nature</a>, at exposure to&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pnas.org/content/99/8/5476" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">0.1 ppb</a>&nbsp;atrazine the frogs showed extremely reduced levels of testosterone and feminized voice boxes.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As Hayes amassed data, Syngenta downplayed his results, citing problems with statistics or asking him to repeat studies, often nitpicking or questioning his credibility or scientific skills.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2000, Hayes resigned from the panel. He continued to speak at conferences, publicizing his ongoing research in the lab. Meanwhile, Syngenta employees began to show up at conferences to publicly besmirch his data. Sporadically, the campaign turned into threats of violence. In a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.democracynow.org/2014/2/21/silencing_the_scientist_tyrone_hayes_on" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Democracy Now</a>&nbsp;interview with Amy Goodman, Hayes said:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Tim Pastoor</font><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">, for example, before I would give a talk, would literally threaten, whisper in my ear that he could have me lynched, or he said he would send some of his "good ol' boys to show me what it’s like to be gay," or at one point he threatened my wife and my daughter with sexual violence.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p id="bookmark" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shockingly, even though Syngenta&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-25/syngenta-pays-105-million-to-settle-herbicide-lawsuits.html" target="blank" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">settled the lawsuit for $105 million</a><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">&nbsp;in late 2012 after eight years of litigation, it still maintains that amount of atrazine present in the water is much lower than would be required to cause damage. </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">In an&nbsp;<a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonentine/2014/03/10/did-the-new-yorker-botch-puff-piece-on-frog-scientist-tyrone-hayes-turning-rogue-into-beleaguered-hero/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">article</a>&nbsp;in&nbsp;<em style="">Forbes</em>&nbsp;published a week after the&nbsp;<em style="">New Yorker</em>&nbsp;story, Jon Entine criticized Hayes and claimed that “after numerous follow up studies by the EPA and a score of scientists … evidence of&nbsp;<a href="http://ecowatch.com/2013/08/26/ban-endocrine-disrupting-atrazine/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">endocrine related problems</a>&nbsp;Hayes claimed to have identified … are nowhere to be found.”</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>This is a patently false assertion. </b>A mere scientific literature search shows dozens of peer-reviewed articles showing atrazine-induced defects in animal models. A number of papers on&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17610964" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">salmon</a>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002117" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">fish</a>&nbsp;find similar results to those in frogs: fish&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100519131126.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">exposed to atrazine</a>&nbsp;showed major reproductive abnormalities in both males and females, low sperm counts and low testosterone levels in males. Similar defects have been observed in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19364509" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">reptiles</a>.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20045047" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">Research in rats</a>&nbsp;has demonstrated decreased fertility, effects on sperm count, increased prostrate disease in males and poor mammary development. A&nbsp;<a href="http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/11/28/Atrazine-reproductive-issues-reviewed/UPI-80111322537237/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">collaborative</a>&nbsp;effort of an international team of scientists confirmed these studies by&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960076011000665" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">demonstrating</a>&nbsp;feminization of male gonads across vertebrate species.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">All signs point toward the same being true for&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507084013.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">humans</a>. Said Hayes:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><blockquote style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); margin: 1em 0px 1em 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px;"><p /><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">A number of epidemiological studies in humans have associated atrazine with impaired reproduction and a decline in sperm count and fertility. Another&nbsp;<a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2002-06-02/news/0206020009_1_atrazine-prostate-cancer-cancer-in-humans/2" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">study</a>&nbsp;looking at increased prostrate disease in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap/meetings/2003/july/atrazineexposure.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">workers who are exposed to atrazine</a>&nbsp;in the production plant in&nbsp;<a href="http://www.pesticide.org/get-the-facts/pesticide-factsheets/factsheets/atrazineprostatecancer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">St. Gabriel, Louisiana</a>. A number of studies now show birth defects in humans exposed to atrazine:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100205081805.htm" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">gastroschisis</a>&nbsp;where the intestines are on the outside of the baby when it’s born,&nbsp;<a href="http://www.jpeds.com/article/S0022-3476%2812%2901542-9/abstract" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">choanal atresia</a>, an effect where the oral cavity and the nasal cavity close up. Most recently, there’s been&nbsp;<a href="http://oem.bmj.com/content/62/6/400.abstract" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">work</a>&nbsp;showing atrazine associating with three different types of genital abnormalities in males.</font></p><p /></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corruption Within the EPA</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Interestingly, the scientific advisory panel to the EPA recognizes this wealth of scientific data. In a&nbsp;<a href="http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap/meetings/2012/june/061212minutes.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">memo</a>&nbsp;from the 2012 review the advisory panel repeatedly calls attention to the biased methodology employed by the EPA. In fact, the advisory panel disagreed with almost every conclusion the EPA made.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes explained: “The panel was only making recommendations, they don’t make decisions and so the EPA doesn’t need to listen to them. This really undermines the role of the scientific advisory panel.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Syngenta was closely involved with the EPA’s decision.</b> The EPA mainly considered just one study that found inconclusive effects of atrazine. This was the sole premise for the EPA’s decision. It was based on the&nbsp;<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2639758/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">research</a>&nbsp;of a group led by Kloas Werner. Said Hayes:</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><blockquote style="margin: 1em 0px 1em 25px; border-left: 5px solid rgb(82, 149, 70); padding: 0px 0px 0px 25px;"><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="padding-left: 30px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Kloas Werner was originally on the EPA scientific advisory panel </span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">that I presented my data to. He at that time was hired by Syngenta and subsequent to being on the panel he conducted a study in collaboration with the EPA and Syngenta and reported back to the panel that he was on. The panel’s conclusion was that more work needed to be done, and then he presented back to that panel. Essentially, his previous decision helped him get the money for his study. Furthermore, they selected a strain of frogs that don’t respond even to estrogen, which was acknowledged by the advisory panel which reviewed their work.</span></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></blockquote><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">But Syngenta wasn’t satisfied with bad science and corruption within the EPA. As Syngenta was hiring Werner, a scientific advisory panel member who could sway the EPA review process, it also held scores of closed-door meetings with panel members. As the documents reveal, Syngenta also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2014/02/10/140210fa_fact_aviv?currentPage=all" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">hired a communications consultancy</a>, the&nbsp;White House Writers’ Group, to set up meetings with members of Congress and Washington bigwigs to discuss upcoming EPA reviews.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The information about Syngenta’s misdeeds has had little to no effect. The fiction that Hayes is a scientific hack continues to pervade the work of pro-Syngenta writers like Entine. These columnists, who write from corporation-apologist perspectives, bolster the fiction by glossing over critiques of the EPA and pretending like its conclusions represent uncontroversial scientific consensus.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Time and time again, these "third-party allies" of Syngenta hyperbolically talk about the&nbsp;<a href="http://academicsreview.org/2014/03/turning-science-into-a-circus-the-new-yorker-rachel-aviv-and-tyrone-hayes/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">"scientific method</a>," and suggest that science is science, regardless of the angle of the investigator (none have much to say about Werner’s estrogen-insensitive frogs). For them, it seems, there is no conceivable way Syngenta employed techniques that would furnish them with results to protect its multimillion-dollar profits.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In other words, for them, "conflict of interest" means nothing. Scientific publishing is uncompromising about this: journals&nbsp;require&nbsp;the disclosure of conflicts of interest in publications. Obviously, political and financial incentives are sufficient criteria to change scientific results because they deeply influence the way experimenters do science.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Unsurprisingly, the Kloas paper failed to declare any conflict of interest.</b></font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“How can you declare no conflict of interest when clearly the manufacturer benefits from the conclusions drawn by that paper as well as benefits from the decisions made by the EPA advisory panel?” Hayes said. “Especially when the member was both on the panel and was paid by Syngenta.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Corporation v. Science</font></strong></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta frequently alleges that Hayes never made his data on atrazine publicly available, a damning indictment that makes it seem like his data could have been fabricated. Hayes said this is not the case. &nbsp;</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“The work that I did for Syngenta, Syngenta owns all that raw data,” he said. “This includes the generated raw data, the transcribed typed data, and really everything. The EPA actually visited my lab. Members of the EPA actually were in my laboratory, they observed all of our processes and data collection. Mary Frankenberry, a statistician, actually analyzed the data herself.”</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta and its supporters also rely heavily on the vitriol that Hayes hardly seems like a disinterested, objective scientist. Rich criticism from a company that hires people to obtain the scientific results it wants.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes has spoken widely, set up a website&nbsp;<a href="http://atrazinelovers.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">AtrazineLovers.com</a>&nbsp;<wbr />and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MxrH4lN0-A" target="blank" style="text-decoration-color: rgb(82, 149, 70); line-height: 1.5;">rapped</a>&nbsp;about Syngenta’s powerful lobbying to keep atrazine on the market. There is, however, a fundamental distinction between a company lobbying to get its favored scientific result, and a scientist who vocally defends his scientific results. Hayes’ response isn’t surprising or unusual. Scientists often claim ownership over their results and will doggedly defend them at conferences.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The actions of big corporations like Syngenta, especially when dealing with highly profitable products, reveal a broader truth about the nature of corporate power. There is a dangerous trend in which corporate fiat is used to call scientific research into question and sway governmental policy. This trend puts millions of lives at risk as hazardous products avoid regulation and remain on the market.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One wonders why the burden isn’t on Syngenta for proving without a doubt that atrazine has&nbsp;no&nbsp;effects before plying the entire population with a highly dangerous chemical. Even if it wasn’t a near-certainty that atrazine causes birth defects, why wouldn’t we require regulatory bodies such as the EPA to err on the side of caution?</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Today, atrazine remains legal and in the water supplies of millions of Americans, despite evidence from scores of labs outside Tyrone Hayes’ showing it to be hazardous.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“In the 15 plus years that I’ve had experience with the EPA,&nbsp; I don’t really have a lot of faith that we’re going to get an objective review that’s really going to focus on environmental health and public health with regards to atrazine, or any other chemical for that matter,” Hayes said.</font></p><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /><p style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Who can blame him?</font></p></div></div></div></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">LI</font></div><div><section class="summary pp-section" data-section="summary" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 24px; padding: 24px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 233, 236); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;"><header class="summaryheader pp-sectionheader" style="background: transparent; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><h2 class="summaryheading pp-sectionheading" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">bout</font></h2></header><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Senior scientist and communicator with over 35 years’ experience as a toxicologist, human health risk assessor, and leader. Skilled and experienced in all areas of toxicological testing, mode of action research, problem solving, and regulatory compliance as well as extensive experience with managing high-performance science teams. Superior oral and written communicator, with long-standing, <b style="background-color: transparent;">successful experience developing media relations strategies and interacting with audiences that were scientific or non-scientific, hostile or friendly</b>.<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> Extensive experience supporting litigation strategies, including depositions and trial testimony.</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /></font></p></section><section class="experience pp-section" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 24px; padding: 24px 0px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(230, 233, 236); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; vertical-align: baseline; background: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><header class="experienceheader pp-sectionheader" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><h2 class="experienceheading pp-sectionheading" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Experience</font></h2></header><ul class="experiencelist" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; list-style: none;"><li class="result-card experience-item" data-section="currentPositionsDetails" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 24px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-align: left; position: relative; display: flex; list-style: none; width: 742px;"><a class="result-cardimage-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/boragen?trk=public_profile_experience-item_result-card_image-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_result-card_image-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: 600; border: 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000"><img class="entity-image experience-item entity-image--company experience-item--company entity-image--square-4 experience-item--square-4 result-cardimage lazy-loaded" alt="Boragen, Inc." src="https://media.licdn.com/dms/image/C4E0BAQGjdzp1_oWUJA/company-logo_100_100/0?e=1574899200&v=beta&t=RWAzTZ_qVOI1NGRDAaL2Y8fcbiU_ezr8Nxq60c1jDAM" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 4px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 4px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, 0); vertical-align: baseline; background: content-box content-box rgb(182, 182, 182); outline: 0px; opacity: 1; transition: opacity 334ms cubic-bezier(0.4, 0, 0.2, 1) 0s; width: 56px; height: 56px; border-radius: 6px; flex-shrink: 0;" /></font></a><div class="result-cardcontents experience-itemcontents" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; -webkit-box-flex: 1; flex-grow: 1; overflow: hidden; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><h3 class="result-cardtitle experience-itemtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.33333;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Senior Vice President</font></h3><h4 class="result-cardsubtitle experience-itemsubtitle" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 400;"><a class="result-cardsubtitle-link experience-itemsubtitle-link" href="https://www.linkedin.com/company/boragen?trk=public_profile_experience-item_result-card_subtitle-click" data-tracking-control-name="public_profile_experience-item_result-card_subtitle-click" data-tracking-will-navigate="" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; text-decoration-line: none; border: 0px; line-height: 1.75; position: relative;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Boragen, Inc.</font></a></h4><div class="result-cardmeta experience-itemmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time class="date-rangestart-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Aug 2018</time>&nbsp;– Present<span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">1 year 1 month</span></font></span></p><p class="experience-itemlocation experience-itemmeta-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">RTP, NC, USA</font></p><div class="experience-itemdescription experience-itemmeta-item" data-section="currentPositions" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><div class="show-more-less-text show-more-less-description" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="show-more-less-textsr-only-text" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); overflow: hidden; padding: 0px !important; border: 0px !important; height: 1px !important; position: absolute !important; white-space: nowrap !important; width: 1px !important;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am now splitting my time with Pastoor Science Communications and Boragen, which is a small biotech company focused on the discovery of boron-based molecules for application in agriculture, animal health, and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in early 2017 and has a very promising pipeline that has been produced by some incredibly hard working chemists and biologists. I continue to be fascinated by boron's unique chemical attributes and have had to go back to basic chemistry to understand its characteristics, binding properties, and opportunities for innovative molecular design.</font></span><span class="show-more-less-textless-text show-more-less-descriptionless-text" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am now splitting my time with Pastoor Science Communications and Boragen, which is a small biotech company focused on the discovery of boron-based molecules for application in agriculture, animal health, and pharmaceuticals. The company was founded in early 2017 and has a very promising pipeline that has been produced by some incredibly hard working chemists and biologists. 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outline: 0px; line-height: 1.75; font-weight: 400;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Pastoor Science Communications, LLC</font></h4><div class="result-cardmeta experience-itemmeta" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><p class="experience-itemduration experience-itemmeta-item" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 4px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; line-height: 1.75;"><span class="date-range" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; line-height: 1.5;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time class="date-rangestart-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px;">Mar 2015</time>&nbsp;– Present<span class="date-rangeduration" style="box-sizing: border-box; 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I provide services and consultation in the areas of strategic legal support, technical expertise in toxicology and human health risk assessment, and science communication.</font></span><span class="show-more-less-textless-text show-more-less-descriptionless-text" aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent; outline: 0px; display: block;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I am the founder and manager of the sole proprietorship, Pastoor Science Communications, LLC. 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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">It&nbsp;<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">sounds like fodder for a PR flap that might benefit the leading producer of the controversial herbicide atrazine: reams of explicit, taunting e-mails sent to company employees by a professor whose research on the health risks of their product had won nationwide notice.</span></font><div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"how yo republican buddies ended up drinking gin with me last night? where were you? ... as long as you followin me round, i know i'm da st [sic]," University of California, Berkeley, professor Tyrone Hayes, wrote to four employees of Syngenta AG on Feb. 24.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes' e-mails to Syngenta officials date to 2002, according to a 102-page file the atrazine manufacturer posted to its website to buttress an ethics complaint filed against the tenured biology professor last month. His communiques run the gamut from spoken-word poetry to music lyrics -- Phil Collins, Tupac Shakur and other artists are quoted -- to profane intimations of violence against Syngenta officials.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The company's latest complaint furthers its long-simmering feud with Hayes, who has become an outspoken critic of atrazine after years-long research that found the weed killer disrupting the sexual development of frogs, in some cases turning male subjects into females. But the intensely personal clash over Hayes' e-mails, described by a Sygenta lawyer as "aggressive, unprofessional, and insulting," is failing to cut into his support from environmental and farmworker advocates who have helped amplify his warnings about the herbicide's human health risks.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Who cares what offended them?" Center for Biological Diversity conservation director Peter Galvin, whose group hosted Hayes for a pesticides event last month, said of Syngenta. "They're grown-ups, they're big boys and girls. They can take a little heat. The fact is, these people are pushing a deadly product."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Galvin likened Syngenta to Joe McCarthy, the senator whose 1950s crusade against perceived communism was later revealed as a witch hunt, and the tobacco industry, which often took a direct approach in attempting to undermine the conclusions of scientists who researched the health hazards of smoking. The latter comparison was echoed by representatives of several other green groups that described the company's ethics charges as an attempt to distract from Hayes' conclusions on the endocrine effects of atrazine exposure as U.S. EPA continues its review of the popular product's impact on human health (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/Greenwire/2009/10/07/15" style=""><i>Greenwire</i></a>, Oct. 7, 2009).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"This is straight out of big tobacco's PR handbook," said Pesticide Action Network North America spokeswoman Heather Pilatic. "The news Syngenta is trying to distract people's attention from, as we're heading into the fall and the tail end of EPA's review, is that atrazine is a serious contaminant."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta, however, finds "no connection" between its alarm over Hayes' provocative e-mails and the content of his atrazine studies, company spokesman Paul Minehart said.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Our goal in this is completely separate from anything regarding the research," Minehart added. "He has as much right as anyone else to voice his opinions. It's the way he's doing it that has [proven offensive]."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes took a dim view of the company's assertion that criticism of his e-mails, which he described as largely in response to incitement from Syngenta employees, was not intended to reflect on his atrazine work.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I don't think you can separate the two," Hayes said in an interview, describing the release of his correspondence as the final step in "a series of tactics they have applied over the last 10 years ... to discredit or assassinate my character."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Hayes has apologized for previous rounds of e-mails to Syngenta employees, but he also attempted to put his impassioned responses in context by forwarding an e-mail he said was accidentally sent to him by a Syngenta lawyer after company scientist Tim Pastoor jostled verbally with Hayes before both men testified on atrazine before a committee of the Illinois Legislature.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Minehart said the e-mail, in which Syngenta's Alan Nadel wrote, "You hit a nerve," was a reaction to the content of that day's testimony, not any private confrontation between Hayes and Pastoor.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Illinois legislators' inquiry comes as more than a dozen Midwestern water utilities pursue a class-action lawsuit against Syngenta, accusing the company of polluting their drinking supplies with unsafe levels of atrazine and seeking compensation to offset the costs of filtering out the herbicide.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meanwhile, the EPA review has sparked a pushback campaign by agribusiness interests that tout the chemical's cost-effectiveness (<a href="http://www.eenews.net/public/eenewspm/2010/07/07/5" style=""><i>E&ENews PM</i></a>, July 7).</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span class="bold" style="font-weight: bold;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Unabashed activist</font></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Syngenta-Hayes battle is driven in no small part by Hayes' unique willingness to wear two hats, those of outspoken atrazine critic and objective scientist.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"I'm not offended by the term 'activist,'" Hayes said. "I am biased because I've seen the data. ... I'm biased in that I don't want [atrazine] in my water. Why shouldn't I make that research available to others?"</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">That confident approach has won Hayes fans since his e-mails were publicized -- the widely read website Gawker dubbed him the "World's Greatest Angry Scientist" -- as well as new conservative opponents. But "it can be a bit challenging balancing" the twin roles of activist and scientist, observed Jason Rohr, an assistant integrative biology professor at the University of South Florida whose atrazine research also has fueled the debate over regulating the chemical.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Rohr offered a window into the political pressures facing academic scientists who often field corporate requests for the raw data underlying their research. When Syngenta asked him for the data underlying a particular atrazine study, Rohr said, he ultimately declined.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"Syngenta has every right to fight back if they think the research is not up to sufficient standards or if there are some ethical concerns regarding the way a study was conducted," Rohr said. Specifying that only Syngenta and Hayes knew all the relevant details of the conflict, he added: "However, certainly there are cases where companies and industry can use their clout and money to intimidate researchers."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The latest ethics complaint is unlikely to be the last volley in the ongoing tangle over atrazine. Hayes said he is about to submit for review the second of two new studies that he describes as documenting the herbicide's disruptive effect on sexual functioning is not limited to frogs.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In addition, researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences released a new&nbsp;<a href="http://www.niehs.nih.gov/news/releases/2010/atrazine.cfm" style=""><b>study</b></a>&nbsp;this week that links low levels of atrazine exposure to delayed puberty and prostate inflammation in rats, findings that will be presented to EPA officials next month during a meeting of the agency's scientific advisory panel that is reviewing atrazine.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">As the EPA review continues, environmental advocates are standing by Hayes' atrazine findings while working to keep federal decisionmakers focused on policy, not verses by the rapper Ludacris.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">"We hope that EPA is not distracted by this show Syngenta is putting on," said John Kempner, project director at the nonprofit Beyond Pesticides. "The science stands on its own."</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Jennifer Sass, a senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, echoed that sentiment in a blog post on the group's website. While she was "surprised to learn" about the e-mails, Sass said, Syngenta's move to release them amounts to a "red herring" given that Hayes is one of many scientists who have concluded that atrazine poses a public health risk.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 1em; line-height: 1.467em; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://www.atrazine.com/Amphibians/Combined_Large_pdf-r-opt.pdf" style=""><b>Click here</b></a>&nbsp;(pdf) to read Hayes' e-mails released by Syngenta.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Timothy Pastoor, PhD,DABT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Principal Scientist</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Syngenta Crop Protection, Inc.&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Pastoor obtained his Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of Michigan, is certified&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">by the American Board of Toxicology (DABT), and is a member of the Society of&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Toxicology and the Society for Risk Analysis. &nbsp;Dr. Pastoor has nearly 30 years of&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">international experience in fundamental toxicity testing, mode of action research, and&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">human health risk assessment. &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">At Syngenta Crop Protection, Dr. Pastoor led the toxicology and risk assessment group in&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">developing human safety data for regulatory and research purposes. &nbsp;In his current role&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">as Principal Scientist for Syngenta Crop Protection, Dr. Pastoor oversees toxicological&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">research projects and product development and is a frequent lecturer on toxicology and&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">risk assessment subjects. &nbsp;&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In 2009, Dr. Pastoor and several others realized that the typical approaches to toxicity&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">testing and human health risk assessment were changing. &nbsp;In vitro tests, fewer animals,&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">more sensitive analytical instrumentation, and the advent of genomics provide&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">opportunities for improvement. &nbsp;Dr. Pastoor now co‐chairs the RISK21 project, which is&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">dedicated to finding more applicable, accurate, and resource appropriate approaches to&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">human health risk assessments in the 21st century. &nbsp;RISK21 is coordinated by the&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">International Life Science Institutes (ILSI) Health and Environmental Sciences Institute&nbsp;</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">(HESI) and is comp</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><header style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Principal Scientist</font></h4><h5 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 16px;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/company/3998?trk=ppro_cprof" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-variant: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Syngenta Crop Protection</font></a></h5></header><span class="experience-date-locale" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 15px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; display: block; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><time datetime="1998" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">1998</time><time style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;– Present</time><time style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">&nbsp;(16 years)</time><span class="locality" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Greensboro/Winston-Salem, North Carolina Area</span></font></span></div><div><div class="field field-type-text field-field-participant-contact" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19.2px; background: rgb(254, 254, 253);"><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">tim.pastoor@syngenta.com</font></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-type-text field-field-participant-bio" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19.2px; background: rgb(254, 254, 253);"><div class="field-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bio:&nbsp;</font></div><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">&nbsp;</font></p><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.5em; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Dr. Pastoor obtained his Ph.D. in toxicology from the University of Michigan, is certified by the American Board of Toxicology (DABT), and is a member of the Society of Toxicology and the Society for Risk Analysis.&nbsp; Dr. Pastoor has nearly 30 years of international experience in fundamental toxicity testing, mode of action research, and human health risk assessment. At Syngenta Crop Protection, Dr. Pastoor led the toxicology and risk assessment group in developing human safety data for regulatory and research purposes.&nbsp; In his current role as Principal Scientist for Syngenta Crop Protection, Dr. Pastoor oversees toxicological research projects and product development and is a frequent lecturer on toxicology and risk assessment subjects.&nbsp;</font></p></div></div></div><div class="field field-type-nodereference field-field-participant-attended" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 19.2px; background: rgb(254, 254, 253);"><div class="field-label" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-weight: bold; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meetings Attended:&nbsp;</font></div><div class="field-items" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: transparent; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><div class="field-item odd" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="http://toxforum.org/meeting/36th-annual-winter-meeting-toxicology-forum" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; background: transparent;">36th Annual Winter Meeting of The Toxicology Forum</a>&nbsp; understanding thru dialouge TM &nbsp;</font></div><h2 class="pagetitle" style="margin: 0px; padding: 20px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1em; clear: right; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Risk Assessment in the 21st Century (RISK21) Initiative</font></h2></div></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">xian college undergd calvin, u mich '75-81</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">--</font></div><div><hgroup style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; line-height: 17px; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h4 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 18px;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etoxsci%2Eoxfordjournals%2Eorg&urlhash=CVyL&trk=prof-publication-title-link" name="publication-site" target="_blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-variant: inherit;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Toxicology and Epidemiology: Improving the Science with a Framework for Combining Toxicological and Epidemiological Evidence to Establish Causal Inference<span style="margin: 0px 0px 0px 5px; padding: 10px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: middle; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline-block; zoom: 1; overflow: hidden; width: 10px; height: 0px; background: url(" http="http" s.c.lnkd.licdn.com="s.c.lnkd.licdn.com" scds="scds" common="common" u="u" img="img" sprite="sprite" sprite_profile_background_v3.png="sprite_profile_background_v3.png" px="px" no-repeat="no-repeat">(Link)</span></font></a></h4><h5 style="margin: 0px 0px 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 16px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES 122(2), 223–234 (2011)</font></h5></hgroup><span class="publication-date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">August 2011</font></span><p class="description" id="control_gen_3" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">This paper was selected as one of Toxicological Sciences 50th Anniversary Archival reviews. In addition, one of the graphics from the publication was put on the cover of the August, 2011 edition. The paper is about how the fields of toxicology and epidemiology can be used together to better understand the role of chemicals in human health and safety.</font></p><dl class="associated-list education-associated associated-condensed" style="margin: 0px; padding: 5px 0px 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 17px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><dt class="no-interaction" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;">Authors:</dt><dd class="associated-endorsements" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;"><ul style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 5px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; list-style: none; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;"><li style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/pub/tim-pastoor/9/663/924" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration: none; font-variant: inherit;">Tim Pastoor</a>,&nbsp;</li><li style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;">Hans-Olov Adami, Sir Colin L. Berry, </li><li style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;"><b>Charles B. Breckenridge</b></li><li style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;">, Lewis L. Smith, James A. Swenberg,,&nbsp;</li><li style="font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;">Dimitrios Trichopoulos, Noel S. Weiss</li></ul></dd></font></dl></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==</font></div></div></div></div></div></div>