Tag: chemicals

RHP’s Ashish Jachak, PhD to Present on Quantitative Structure Permeability Relationship Models for Dermal Penetration of Chemicals at 2024 ISES Conference

Jon Redmond /October 7, 2024

RHP Risk Management’s Ashish Jachak, PhD will present on “A Review of Quantitative Structure-Permeability Relationship Models Which Predict Dermal Absorption of Chemicals” at the 2024 International Society of Exposure Science…

Understanding Hazard vs. Risk in the Media: Chlormequat in Cereal Grains

Jon Redmond /May 24, 2024

How often does the average person calculate a hazard vs. risk? Further, what does risk mean across our everyday decisions? A lineman may define risk as climbing poles to repair high…

Two States Take Steps to Ban PFAS Following US EPA Publishing of Final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements for PFAS

Jon Redmond /March 19, 2024

Rule Summary for Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) Late last year, on October 11, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published the final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Reporting…

RHP’s Ashish Jachak Attends 2023 Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) Conference: Highlights Regulatory Landscape of Forever Chemicals and Use of Exposures and Hazards to Guide Smarter Polymers

Jon Redmond /February 29, 2024

What I heard at the 2023 Society of Risk Analysis (SRA) conference in Washington, D.C. TSCA and Cumulative Risk Assessment (CRA) of Phthalates Kelsey Hendrixson (Noblis) presented a new draft…

Cannabis Legislation Taking Effect in 2024 Includes Focus on Worker Safety and Employment Discrimination

Jon Redmond /January 8, 2024

The turn of the New Year has put new legislation into effect for the cannabis industry. Ohio joins 23 other states (and Washington D.C.) that have authorized cannabis for adult use,…