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Mineau, Pierre

Dr. Pierre Mineau is Senior Scientist and founder of Pierre Mineau Consulting, with near 40 years of experience in assessing the environmental risk of pesticides and other contaminants. Most of his working career was with the Canadian Government, culminating as Senior Research Scientist in Environmental Toxicology within the Science and Technology Branch of Environment Canada (and before that, the Canadian Wildlife Service). For part of that time, he was intimately involved in the pesticide regulatory process in Canada as an advisor to the federal department of agriculture. His research encompasses pesticide toxicology, wildlife conservation in agro-ecosystems, biomarker development, risk assessment, sustainable agriculture and anthropogenic sources of avian mortality. He has been an advisor on pesticide issues and participated in regulatory and legal proceedings in Canada, the U.S., the European Union and other countries. Pierre has authored or co-authored over 200 technical papers, book chapters and reports, including many seminal analyses of modern pesticide risk assessment, most of them in the peer-reviewed literature. He has given a large number of presentations at scientific meetings or to governments, academic institutions or NGOs.