Scientific and Forensic Services Inc.
A practicing chemist/industrial hygienist/biochemist/materials scientist and consultant since 1960. An effective expert witness in thousands of cases since 1980. Currently specializing in exposure risk assessments to toxic and hazardous materials and injurious products and warnings/labelling/packaging/MSDS issues.
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Asbestos,Chemistry,Hazardous Materials,Health and Safety,Indoor Air Quality,Lead and Lead Paint,
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Asbestos | Chemistry | Hazardous Materials | Health and Safety | Indoor Air Quality | Lead and Lead Paint |
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Dr. Joseph Guth has been a practicing scientist since 1958. He has been providing independent expert witness testimony (for the plaintiff/defense and prosecution in civil and criminal courts), industrial hygiene, and analytical laboratory and consulting services since 1978 to industries, general commerce, all levels of government, the military, individuals, and to the legal and insurance communities. As a research scientist, a former university professor and laboratory owner and director of a nationally-known testing laboratory, he has all of the necessary skills to provide strongly supportable, independent, and understandable opinions in many types of legal cases, regulatory issues, and insurance claim investigations. His expert witness affidavits, depositions and court testimony have been rendered in numerous jurisdictions in many states at the local, state and federal levels, as well as in military proceedings. He has been accepted as an expert through Daubert proceedings. These have been in both civil and criminal matters. He has worked closely with scores of attorneys and insurance investigators on a regular basis. He has also given testimony and consultation to federal, state and local legislative bodies, regulatory agencies and other governmental departments. He has been an invited Peer Reviewer of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health and a research grant reviewer for the National Science Foundation. His experience and opinions have also been rendered in specialized areas of the law like Railroad law (FELA), Admiralty law, Workman's Comp and Federal Employee Arbitration casework.
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University of California, Undergraduate Chemistry major, Molecular Genetics minor, Undergraduate Honors Research in the Physicochemical Interaction of Acridine Mutagenic Dyes with DNA; Mechanisms of Carcinogenesis, Los Angeles, CA 1960-64
U. S. Army Chemical School, Certificate, Chemical Laboratory Specialist (Chemical, Biological and Radiological Warfare Training), Ft. McClellan, AL, 1964
University of California, Davis, U. S. Department of Agriculture Workshop on "Analytical Techniques in Plant, Soil and Water Testing", Davis, CA, 1969
Veterans Administration Medical Center Hospital, General Clinical Laboratory Technician Training Course, Palo Alto, CA, 1968
University of California, Berkeley, Undergraduate Research in Polysaccharide Biosynthesis and Enzyme Molecular Conformation Changes During Catalysis in a Membrane-Bound Polymerase, B.S. Chemistry, Berkeley, CA, 1970 (Biochemistry & Molecular Genetics Minor)
University of California, Berkeley, Research in Membrane Biophysics, Calcium Metabolism, Cell Cycle Control, Carcinogenesis and Cellular Senescence, Ph.D. Biophysics and Biochemistry, Berkeley, CA, 1975
University of Wisconsin, Research in Gerontology and Endocrinology, Joint Postdoctoral Fellowship in Endocrinology/Enzymology, Madison, WI, 1975-6
American Board of Industrial Hygiene Diplomate, Certified Industrial Hygienist (in Comprehensive Practice), Certification No. 3755, December, 1987-Present
University of Delaware, Arson Investigation Training Seminar, Newark, DE, 1982
University of Texas, NIOSH/USPHS Course and Workshop 582 in "Asbestos Evaluation", Houston, TX, 1979
University of North Carolina School of Public Health, Advanced Industrial Hygiene Course, Raleigh, NC, 1980
University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Personal Sampling Course, Raleigh, NC, 1980
University of North Carolina, School of Public Health, Environmental Exposure Sampling and Statistics Course, Raleigh, NC, 1980
Georgia Institute of Technology, U.S. EPA Course on Advanced Asbestos and Mineral Identification Methods (taught by W. McCrone), Atlanta, GA, 1980
Georgia Institute of Technology, Asbestos Glove Bag Course, Atlanta, GA, 1983
Georgia Institute of Technology, Asbestos Abatement Project Cost Estimation Course, Atlanta, GA, 1984
Vanderbilt University, American Board of Industrial Hygiene, Fundamentals of Industrial Hygiene, Nashville, TN, May, 1987
University of Cincinnati, Comprehensive Review for Industrial Hygiene Professionals, May, 1987
MAIC / University of Illinois, "EPA-Accredited Certification Course for Building Asbestos Inspection", Richmond, VA, January, 1988; Refresher Course: January, 1989
MAIC/University of Illinois, "EPA-Accredited Certification Course for Management Planning", Richmond, VA, January, 1988; Refresher Course: February, 1989
Medical College of Virginia, School of Preventive Medicine, "EPA-Accredited Certification Course for Asbestos Contract Supervisors & Project Designers", Richmond, VA, February, 1988; Refresher Course: February, 1989
Asbestos Consulting and Training Systems, ?Asbestos Contractor/Supervisor Course?, Norfolk, VA, June, 1996
Asbestos Consulting and Training Systems, ?AHERA Building Asbestos Inspector Course?, Norfolk, VA, April, 1998
Asbestos Consulting and Training Systems, ?AHERA Building Asbestos Management Planner Course?, Norfolk, VA, April, 1998
A. H. Reppert & Associates, Inc., ?Lead Inspector/Risk Assessor Initial Course?, Richmond, VA, January, 1997
American Industrial Hygiene Association/American Conference of Industrial Governmental Hygienists, Professional Development Course No. 710, ?Practical Tools for Modeling of Occupational Exposures?, Atlanta, GA, May, 2004
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Chemistry (all aspects), Environmental Fields (asbestos, lead paint, toxic compounds, pesticides, radiation, indoor air quality & sick building syndrome), Industrial Hygiene (comprehensive practice including toxicology), Safety Programs, Risk Management, Personal Injury (slip & fall, workplace accidents, explosions, toxic exposures, cancer), Product Liability (asbestos products, lead paints and pigments, lighter explosions, electrical appliance fires, ladder failure, medical device failures, food poisoning, pharmaceutical drug side effects), Arson and Accidental Fire Cause & Origin, Forensic Science (criminalistics, analysis and forensic toxicology of controlled substances, trace evidence examination and analysis, hair and fiber evidence, blood and fluid stain characterizations), Radiation Contamination Evaluation and Exposure, and several other specialties.
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