Lara A. Hall, MS, RQAP-GLP

A passion for aquatic ecology born during undergraduate field work with the Virginia Tech Department of Biology’s “Stream Team” has led Ms. Hall through a distinguished career, including positions at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Environmental Sciences Division; the Stroud Water Research Center, where she led field research and was responsible for data management and quality assurance (QA) and control; and most recently as senior scientist and QA auditor at a toxicology consulting firm where she monitored and quality assured ecotoxicology, environmental fate, physical-chemical properties, product chemistry, and analytical method validation studies from protocol development through final reporting.

Ms. Hall’s commitment to scientific integrity, deadlines, budgets, and her acute attention to detail are all invaluable to clients pursuing regulatory compliance in a competitive business climate.  She is proficient in monitoring and auditing studies through all phases of environmental testing programs, including test plan development, laboratory inspection and study placement, protocol development, dose selection, in life monitoring, and report and data review for scientific integrity and compliance, budget management, and sponsor updates.  Her regulatory experience includes dossier and robust summary preparation, environmental risk assessment, fate modeling, and interfacing with a global network of regulatory officials related to submissions under the European Union (EU) Biocidal Products Directive/Regulation (BPD/BPR); U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) — Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA); U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA); Registration, Evaluation, Authorization and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH); and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).