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Dr. Laurie Haws is a Principal Health Scientist with ToxStrategies, Inc. and is based in Austin, Texas. She is a board-certified toxicologist with over 20 years of experience in the fields of toxicology and risk assessment. Dr. Haws has worked in both environmental consulting and government sectors, including serving as a manager in the Toxicology and Risk Assessment Section at the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). In her position with the TCEQ, Dr. Haws was responsible for overseeing all human health risk assessment activities and was also one of the primary authors of the agency's comprehensive risk-based corrective action rule (the Texas Risk Reduction Program (TRRP) rule).

Dr. Haws has extensive experience assessing potential health risks associated with exposures to a wide variety of consumer products, food ingredients and additives, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, pesticides, industrial chemicals, and environmental agents. She has conducted biologically-based risk assessments for a number of those products, incorporating information on pharmacokinetics and mechanisms of action, and has assisted in the preparation of reports for submission to regulatory agencies such as the FDA, EPA, and California's Proposition 65 program. Dr. Haws is skilled at evaluating data concerning modes and mechanisms of action for use in both cancer and non-cancer risk assessments. She has conducted studies evaluating metabolism and disposition of a variety of halogenated aromatic hydrocarbons and has experience designing and implementing both cross-fostering and developmental toxicity studies. Dr. Haws has studied and evaluated potential health effects associated with a wide range of chemicals including lead, arsenic, mercury, PCBs, polychlorinated dibenzodioxins and dibenzofurans, PAHs, benzene, butadiene, chlorinated solvents, and trihalomethanes. She has significant experience evaluating potential human health risks associated with exposure to contaminants in environmental media (air, water, and soil) and the food chain and is knowledgeable about a number of state and federal regulatory programs designed to address the investigation and remediation of contaminated sites. Dr. Haws has significant experience working with federal, state, and local government agencies, industry and private sector businesses, legislative representatives, the media, and members of the general public. She has served on a number of scientific panels, technical workgroups, and advisory committees.