In memoriam: Robert Krieger

Robert Krieger, UC Cooperative Extension specialist in toxicology at Riverside, died July 26 at age 72.

Krieger had served as a CE specialist at UC Riverside since 1994, specializing in pesticide exposure assessment and worker health and safety. He also was an adjunct clinical professor in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at Loma Linda University.

Krieger's first academic position with UC was in the Department of Entomology and Nematology at UC Davis from 1971 to 1980. He was a founding faculty member of the UC Davis Department of Environmental Toxicology, according to emeritus professor James Seiber.

From 1981 to 1986, he was a professor of veterinary and comparative toxicology for the Washington-Oregon-Idaho Regional Veterinary Medical Education Program. In 1986, he became a staff toxicologist and later branch chief for Worker Health and Safety at California Department of Food and Agriculture. Before returning to UC in 1994, Krieger served two major Washington, D.C., consulting firms (1991-94) in exposure and risk assessment.

No services were scheduled at the time this was written.

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