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Through Roux’s News & Events, we share relevant industry news, regulatory updates, upcoming webinars and conferences, articles published by our experts, corporate social responsibility events, monthly newsletters, project and market sector information, and much more. Browse through our latest posts below.

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Microplastics: The Next Big Emerging Environmental/Product Defect Liability?

September 25, 2020
Looking Ahead: Could Microplastics be the Next Big Emerging Environmental and/or Product Defect Liability? Microplastics (plastic debris smaller than five millimeters) are in the news more and more. With PFAS impacts consuming most people’s attention regarding emerging chemicals, what's the...
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Catherine Boston, MPH to Speak at ABA Joint Regional CLE Program

January 15, 2020
Wednesday, January 29 - Thursday, January 30 The American Bar Association (ABA) is hosting their 2020 Environmental & Energy, Mass Torts, and Products Liability Litigation Committees' Joint Regional CLE Program this year in the Westin Snowmass Resort in Colorado. This program,...
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Human Health Risk Assessment (HHRA) Services

November 08, 2022
Roux's team of toxicologists, industrial hygienists, and human health risk assessors have evaluated complex exposure, toxicity, and risk assessment in the context of product safety evaluations, occupational exposure, contaminated site investigation and cleanup, and in toxic tort litigation. Our human health risk assessors guide efficient cleanup of contaminated sites via creative technical approaches to exposure unit/land use assumptions, background contributions, historic fill, and statistical approaches under various regulatory regimes across the United States.

Roux also provides qualitative and quantitative industrial hygiene assessments for commercial and industrial clients in various industries to assist them with both complex and regulatory challenges. Our services include guiding clients through product regulatory testing and compliance and identifying additional potential product exposure hazards. Roux also has a team of experienced expert witnesses who have offered expert opinions on general causation (mechanistic toxicity data, animal bioassays, and epidemiological data), dose reconstruction, and association of exposure-specific health outcomes. Roux has been retained and testified in some of the country’s highest profile cases, as outlined below.
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