Dr Bojan FLAKS

Info Research International
16 Yew Tree Park
Congresbury
North Somerset
BS49 5ER
United Kingdom

Telephone: +44(0)1934 833788
Facsimile: +44(0)1934 876816
Email: Bojan.Flaks@inforesearch.u-net.com

Pathologist and toxicologist, with special expertise in toxicity and carcinogenicity of environmental and industrial chemicals and pollutants.
B.Sc., Ph.D., D.Sc., C.Biol., F.I.Biol., F.R.C.Path.
Present post: Director of InfoResearch International (toxicological and environmental consultancy), since 1989, and independent toxicological consultant.

Previous posts:
(1) Research Assistant, University of Leeds, Department of Experimental Pathology and Cancer Research, 1964-1968.
(2) Lecturer in Pathology, University of Bristol, Department of Pathology, 1968-1991.
(3) Director and Head of Department, Environmental Toxicology Centre, University of Bristol, 1991-1996.
(4) Honorary Research Fellow, University of Bristol, 1996-1999.

CONSULTANCY WORK IN THE U.K.
Active since 1980 as a toxicological consultant in both civil litigation and criminal cases, mainly involving personal injury due to chemical toxicity. I am on the Law Society‚s Register of Expert Witnesses. I have acted for many years as a toxicological consultant to the pharmaceutical and chemical industries, and to the construction industry, having carried out toxicological assessments of contaminated lands. I carried out assessments of the potential environmental and health impacts of the proposed airport at Filton, Bristol and the expansion of Manchester Airport. I have also acted as a toxicological consultant to the Ministry of Defence on the disposal of classified toxic military wastes, to the Somerset Environment Agency on pesticide pollution incidents, to the University of Bristol and to Humberside County Council and Crowle Parish Council on public health risks associated with toxic and clinical waste incineration. I have given evidence to several Public Inquiries! including the Kirk Sandall and Saltend toxic waste incinerator inquiries and the Filton airport inquiry.

OVERSEAS CONSULTANCY WORK
I was a consultant to the Norwegian National Medicines Control Authority from 1983 to 1984, on the toxicological (cancer) risk from paracetamol, resulting in the revision of Norwegian controls over the long-term use of this analgesic.
I ran a British Council Workshop on the health risks of toxic chemicals and the toxicology of pesticides and environmental pollutants, at the Islamic University of Gaza in September 1995.

I organized and ran a British Council Workshop on Clinical Waste Management in Lahore for the Punjab Environmental Protection Agency, in November 1995. This was used as the basis for the formulation of a national policy for clinical waste management in Pakistan. I organized and ran a similar Workshop in March 1997 in Freetown, Sierra Leone, jointly sponsored by the Ministry of Health and Sanitation of Sierra Leone and the British Council. A draft policy for Sierra Leone was formulated, but progress was interrupted by the rebellion and military coup that followed.

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
From 1964 I carried out research on toxicology and experimental pathology, including chemical carcinogenesis and environmental pollutants such as dioxins, PCBs and PAHs. I taught pathology and cancer studies to undergraduate medical and science students, and provided postgraduate training in chemical toxicology, pathology, carcinogenesis and immunotoxicology. I have published over 60 papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. I was an active participant, from its inception, in the „Survey of Compounds being Tested for Carcinogenicity‰ of the IARC (WHO), and refereed research project grant applications for the Medical Research Council and the Dutch Cancer Society. Member of the Editorial Board of Cancer BioChemistry BioPhysics and referee for several cancer and pathology journals. Member of the Royal College of Pathologists, the Pathological Society of Great Britain, the British Association for Cancer Research, the British Society for Cell Biology and the Institute of Bi!
ology.

Toxicology of chemicals, including toxicity, carcinogenicity and immunotoxicity.
Occupational exposure to chemicals.
Occupational cancers.
Chemical injury caused by occupational or domestic exposures.
Carbon monoxide poisoning.
Exposure to pesticides.