Dr Andrew J. Ingram
Andrew has a BSc in Zoology and a PhD in cancer research. He trained in animal pathology and toxicology at The British Industrial Biological Research Association (BIBRA) and also worked on mutagenicity tests and other tests for genotoxicity. He joined BP in 1979 and was responsible for all in-house pathology until he left at the end of 1992. At BP he represented the company on European Committees (CONCAWE, ECETOC, and the Institute of Petroleum) that dealt with the toxicological effects of Chemicals and Oil products and related Regulatory Issues.
Dr Ingram set up his own consultancy in 1993 and has been acting as an independent toxicology consultant from 1993 to the present. He has acted as consultant to a variety of oil and chemical companies and three inter-industry groups. He provides advice on pathology, toxicology, carcinogenicity and the design, monitoring and interpretation of research studies. He has now published over 30 scientific papers and is regularly used as a referee by three international journals. He has lectured on skin pathology at the University of Surrey for over 30 years.
He has special expertise on any problems relating to the skin, effects on the respiratory tract, carcinogenicity and mutagenicity, and reviewing data to give overall evaluations of hazard and risk. He has prepared many expert witness reports in personal damage cases.
Over the past 11 years he has carried out a large number of toxicological assessments on cosmetics, household products and toys.
