Chemicals Consulting

How We Help Chemical Industry Clients

• Regulatory Compliance

  Whether you need support with pesticides, packaged foods, drugs, or cosmetics, our regulatory experts, chemists, toxicologists, ecotoxicologists, and environmental and exposure assessment professionals can help you navigate the chemical review process and stay aligned with global and regional requirements. From active substances (or ingredients) and product formulations to regulatory approval roadmaps and safety in the market, we help ensure you have the knowledge needed to anticipate and correct issues before they happen — or mitigate them effectively.

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• Toxicology Consulting

  Exponent provides strategic and scientific toxicological consulting services with rigorous exposure assessments, toxicity evaluations, health risk assessments, regulatory guidance, and state-of-the-art toxicological study design support. Our toxicologists and multidisciplinary scientists, engineers, industrial hygienists, and other experts help clients develop, test, and analyze industrial chemicals and products ranging from food and beverages to medical devices and wearables.

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• Emerging Contaminants

  Exponent provides expert engineering and scientific services to help our clients identify and manage chemicals of emerging concern, such as per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), 6PPD, microplastics, and nano materials. Our multidisciplinary teams provide technical insights into these contaminants' properties, detection, and quantification. We design custom testing plans, conduct thorough custom chemical analyses, and offer data analysis to support product lifecycle management and address human health and environmental risks.

• Industrial Hygiene & Safety Consulting

  Our industrial hygienists, health scientists, toxicologists, and human factors experts offer occupational and environmental health risk assessments, mitigation strategies, compliance support, and more to help safeguard employee health and enhance workplace safety. Trained and licensed to work in every industry and equipped with advanced analytical techniques, our multidisciplinary, globally distributed teams of occupational health experts provide timely support and rigorous insights for chemical exposures and accidents.

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• Food Safety Consulting

  Our food safety experts offer clients wide-ranging product development support, contaminant exposure evaluations, and global product registration and regulatory guidance, including for biocides, antimicrobials, agrochemicals, and pesticides. We can also assist with product recalls, including advising on testing, guiding regulatory interactions, and providing litigation support. Exponent's teams of chemists, toxicologists, ecotoxicologists, regulatory consultants, epidemiologists, biostatisticians, and risk assessors provide a multidisciplinary approach and unparalleled technical support for food ingredients, products, and manufacturers.

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• Environmental Site Assessment

  Our multidisciplinary scientific and engineering teams help clients investigate environmental contamination events, assess current risks and liability, and plan effective remediation strategies. From contaminated industrial sites to refinery explosions to pipeline failures, Exponent's chemical accident investigators offer preeminent expertise in uncovering root causes and contributing factors, guiding response planning and activities, and implementing corrective actions towards future prevention.

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• Chemical Formulation & Optimization

  Exponent offers technical expertise for chemical products formulated for a global market and assembles multidisciplinary teams to tackle your toughest challenges, drawing from electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, process engineering, combustion and fluid mechanics, materials and corrosion, data sciences, and more. Whether improving the quality of an existing process ("why is the moisture level so high?") or innovating something new ("how can we manufacture this new type of product?"), we help you chart the path forward by applying smart science, best practices, and creative solutions to chemical process management. Our services across the product lifecycle include:

  • Assessing the properties of new formulations
  • Regulatory approval support and compliance reviews
  • Manufacturing process design and optimization
  • Product performance and stress testing

• Chemical Supply Chain Assessments

  Exponent chemical experts help manufacturers, suppliers, and exporters evaluate their supply chains for possible contaminants, including PFAS, PCBs, and heavy metals — chemicals that may represent hazards in food, cosmetics, consumer goods, and more — identifying sources of contamination, analyzing alternatives for restricted or banned substances, and offering multidisciplinary recall support. Our chemical scientists have decades of experience leveraging rigorous methodologies and data analysis to help organizations meet chemical regulatory compliance, safety, and sustainability challenges — regionally and globally — and navigate risk. Across hundreds of projects for chemical and consumer product companies, our consultants have provided clients with:

  • Chemical assessment of manufacturing supply chains
  • In-depth chemical data analysis
  • Evaluations of potential manufacturing partners and suppliers
  • New chemical compound characterization through custom testing in specialized labs

• Chemical Data Analysis & Modeling

  The amount of data in a modern chemical operation can be overwhelming. Our data sciences consultants can create the clarity and understanding needed to go forward confidently, including:

  • Chemical data analysis, including determining what to measure and how
  • End-to-end organization and cleaning of chemical data for accuracy, reliability, and interoperability
  • Chemical database management and integrations with third-party data sources
  • Advanced chemical data modeling to provide key insights and decision-making support
  • Design of real-time dashboards and custom reports to enable clear communications

• Accident & Failure Investigation

  Accidents or failures in a chemical plant can pose unique challenges and risks. If the event of an incident, you can rely on Exponent's preeminent expertise in uncovering the root causes and contributing factors of what went wrong.

  Our 50+ years of experience across all manner of accidents and failures, from refinery explosions to pipeline ruptures and other equipment issues to worker falls, gas releases or leaks, chemical spills, and chemical reactivity incidents, enable us to provide detailed, actionable insights on why an incident happened — and what can be done to prevent it from happening again.

• Expert Witness Services

  Exponent scientists and engineers represent the science at dispute proceedings as independent, unbiased expert witnesses by bringing clarity, precision, and the ability to explain complicated chemical industry and other scientific topics in understandable ways to judges, juries, and mediators.