Richard Troast, PhD
Locust Grove, New York
General Specialty
EnvironmentalToxicology
Specialty Focus
Chemical ContaminantsChemical Exposure Hazard and Risk Assessments
Environmental Carcinogenesis
Environmental Chemistry
Environmental Damages
Environmental Sciences
Hazardous Waste
Lead Exposure from Drinking Water Soil and Paint
Lead Paint Testing
Lead-Based Paint
Pesticide Hazard Risk/Hazard Assessment
PFOA and PFOS Compound Hazard Assessments from Environmental Releases
Risk Assessment (Sciences)
Solid Waste
Superfund
Toxicology Risk Assessment
Primary Areas of Expertise
Toxicology and Environmental
Dr. Troast provides expert witness services as a toxicologist discussing the health risks of chemicals and hazardous products released into the environment where residents are exposed to the unknown chemical. Dr. Troast has provided opinions and testimony in litigations involving exposures to lead based paint, pesticides, water contaminants (i.e. poly- fluorinated compounds), hazardous wastes, biologics and radionuclides. Dr. Troast has been recognized as an expert under both Daubert and Frye criteria and has testified in both State and Federal Courts.
Dr. Troast had a 33- year career at the US EPA retiring as a senior scientist for the “Superfund Program”. He chaired both the Technical Review Panel for Lead and the Technical Review panel for Asbestos while working in the Superfund program.
While at the USEPA, Dr. Troast oversaw the implementation of the IEUBK lead risk model and its conversion into a computer system that is usable in desk top computers. He received an EPA Meritorious Science Award for this action.
Dr. Troast was a scientist/manager in both the Office of Toxic Substances and the Office of Pesticide Programs. In both of these assignments Dr. Troast was responsible for the development of a scientific position that would assess the toxicity/hazard of the compound within industrial settings and the food chain for the population of the US.
Upon retirement from the USEPA, Dr. Troast worked as a toxicology consultant for the USAID in the Kingdom of Jordan. While in Jordan, Dr. Troast provided technical advice to the Jordanian Minister of the Environment on water system testing and separation methods for hazardous and non-hazardous wastes and treatment of the hazardous wastes. Upon completion of the USAID service, Dr. Troast formed his private consulting group and began teaching at a local community college.
Areas of Expertise:
Lead exposure risks from environmental sources including paint, soil, chemical wastes and drinking water to children and adults. Risks associated with industrial chemical releases such as PFOS/PFAS. Health risks from exposures to pesticides.
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