excellence in ecotoxicology, data review, and risk assessment

Providing consulting services to assist with ecotoxicity test data review, risk assessment, and regulatory compliance

Ecological Risk Assessment

Data review

Risk Mitigation Options

Environmental Impact Assessment

Test Guidelines and Validation

The president and chief consultant for Equiparent Consulting is Dr. Les Touart.  He is a retired senior ecotoxicologist from the USEPA Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention. He received his BS in marine biology and MS in biology from the University of West Florida and PhD in environmental biology and public policy from George Mason University. He has served with NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service and 36+ years with USEPA, initially serving at the USEPA ORD-Gulf Ecology Division in Gulf Breeze, Florida performing marine organism toxicity tests and then in the Office of Pesticide Programs performing ecological risk assessments and developing test guidelines from molecular-based in vitro assays to large community-based and ecosystem-level  aquatic mesocosms. Dr. Touart served 18 years in support of the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program and oversaw the validation efforts for all the ecological test methods. He has been very active internationally with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in test guidelines validation and harmonization.  He continues his efforts in advancing probabilistic ecological risk assessments, endocrine toxicology and international outreach outreach.

Ecotoxicology and Endocrine Toxicology