Epidemiology is the study of disease in human populations. It is often considered the “gold standard” for assessing whether exposures to certain toxicants will increase the likelihood of developing a particular disease or other health effect. ChemRisk^® has significant experience analyzing and scrutinizing data to accurately identify data trends and patterns, as well as at determining how other risk factors may influence the relationship between exposures to certain toxicants and the risk of developing disease.

Currently, we have approximately ten professionals with graduate degrees or significant postgraduate experience in epidemiology. Over the years, we have conducted a number of epidemiology studies that have clarified often contentious health risk issues (e.g., the relationship between cyanoacrylate exposure and asthma, skin contact with chromium contaminated soil, exposure to dioxins and diabetes). In some cases, we have conducted meta-analyses of the relevant published studies in order to characterize the hazards of a chemical by using a weight-of-the-evidence approach.