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Dr. Hamdy Balba is currently a Senior Managing Scientist in Exponent’s Food & Chemicals practice. He has 38 years of experience in a wide spectrum of specializations in the pesticide industry. His work in academic institutes and industry had primarily included pesticide synthesis environmental fate metabolism analysis and registration. Dr. Balba occupied a leading position among his piers in the area of the nature and analysis of pesticides bound residues in crops. Other fields of interest that highlight his academic career include the chemical simulation of metabolic enzyme systems the biochemical changes in the resistant strains of pests and exploring new analytical methods for determining the concentration of pesticides specially in the area of Pyrolysis-Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry. | 