Dr. Bates is a Supervising Health Scientist with Stantec ChemRisk with over seven years of consulting experience in toxicology and human health risk assessment. His primary training and areas of expertise include human health risk assessment, regulatory toxicology, developmental and reproductive toxicology, and heavy metal neurotoxicology. Dr. Bates has provided toxicological support in health hazard evaluations and risk assessments in addition to safety data compilations and evaluations using existing scientific literature and data development to support NDIN, GRAS determinations, and food contact notifications to FDA, as well as FIFRA submissions to the EPA. Dr. Bates has also supported clients in product stewardship and occupational health safety with reviews of methodologies for occupational hazard banding and sensory exposure mitigation as well as high priority risk screenings and hazard assessments of flavor and fragrance ingredients and chemicals. Dr. Bates is also experienced in the writing and analysis of toxicological profiles of pre-market, food-related products, chemical risk assessments of extractables and leachables for regulatory submissions of food-related and consumer products, and health hazard evaluations in response to food and environmental contamination events. Dr. Bates has a B.S. in Biochemistry and a Ph.D. in Integrative Neuroscience from Purdue University. Dr. Bates is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology (DABT) in 2019. Dr. Bates is also a member of the Society of Toxicology (SOT).