Anna Rowbotham Joins CSI as Principal Consultant

Compliance Services International (CSI) is pleased to announce the addition of Anna Rowbotham, BSc (Hons) PhD as Principal Consultant to our global regulatory consulting team. Anna will contribute to regulatory and toxicological support for plant protection products, biocides, chemicals, cosmetic products, food contact materials and animal health products in the EU. This exciting new addition to our staff comes as CSI marks its 30th Year of Service to the chemical industry. Since 1988, we have expanded our client base, extended our international outreach, and increased our visibility and depth as a regulatory and scientific consulting firm. This period is marked with milestones, turning points and retooling as we endeavor to stay ahead of events and anticipate our clients' changing needs. We continue to face new and emerging regulatory and scientific challenges with our clients through our staff in the United States and the European Union. We are pleased to make Anna's talents available to you and ask you to join us in welcoming this regulatory professional to our team!

Anna has over 25 years of experience in toxicology, exposure modelling and human health risk assessment gained in senior scientific and management positions in consultancy, regulatory, industry and research settings. Prior to joining CSI, Anna led a multi-disciplined team of specialists at a regulatory consultancy to deliver high quality technical and scientific services and advice to clients in the agrochemical, biocide and industrial and specialty chemicals industries. Anna has broad regulatory experience including: dossier preparation, the provision of high level and strategic advice, preparation of expert statements, classification and labelling, testing strategies and read-across and human exposure modelling using standard and bespoke models.

In a previous role at the Health and Safety Laboratory, Anna led a programme of technical support for the UK Chemicals Regulation Directorate (CRD) for biocides and industrial chemicals and conducted research to develop probabilistic population-based computational toxicokinetic models. She was involved in chemical safety work as part of the Government Chemist Programme while at LGC Ltd. and conducted consumer dietary risk assessments for the registration of crop protection products while at Syngenta. Anna has authored high quality critical reviews on contemporary chemical risk assessment issues for the MRC Institute for Environment and Health, as well as other publications and has provided training across various human health risk assessment topics. Anna has a degree in Biochemistry and a PhD in Neurotoxicology and is a member of the British Toxicology Society.

At CSI, Anna prepares registration dossiers and risk assessments and provides toxicological support for plant protection products, chemicals, biocides, animal health products, cosmetic products and food contact materials.

Anna will be working out of the European Headquarters in Edinburgh, Scotland and can be reached at ARowbotham@complianceservices.com or by contacting our Edinburgh office at +44 (0) 131 445 6080.