Brittany Baisch, PhD, DABT

Britt is the Regulatory Toxicology Lead at Enko, a crop health company that designs safe and sustainable solutions to farmers’ biggest crop threats from pest resistance to new diseases. She is also an adjunct professor at Western Connecticut State University in the Chemistry Department. Prior to her role at Enko she built and led the North American toxicology program for laundry and home care products as the Research Fellow – Toxicology at Henkel, and also  previously for the Sun Products Corporation. This role involved product safety assessments, study design and interpretation to support antimicrobials and disinfectants. Prior to Henkel, she was the Senior Toxicologist at Kraft Foods, and then the Kraft Heinz Company. At Kraft, Britt helped manage chemical food safety programming for HACCP, monitored impurities in the supply chain and had developed a packaging safety program. Britt recently coauthored the contaminants section of the History of Food and Nutrition Toxicology textbook. She holds three bachelor’s degrees from Western Connecticut State University in Chemistry, Biochemistry and Spanish, and has MS and PhD degrees from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry in Molecular Toxicology and Environmental Medicine. Britt is a Diplomate of the American Board of Toxicology and serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Toxicology as Secretary, and on the Board of the Connecticut State Colleges & Universities Foundation. She has held several elected and appointed leadership positions within the Society of Toxicology, most recently in the Presidential chains of Women in Toxicology and the Sustainable Chemicals through Contemporary Toxicology component groups.