Farrell Melnick, PhD, MS, is president and founder of Melnick Scientific, a consulting firm focused on reducing infections in health care due to contaminated pharmaceutical products and microbial growth and proliferation in water and ventilation systems in health care facilities. Melnick Scientific also focuses on toxicological and industrial hygiene evaluations to assist in protecting workers in health care and other industries. Farrell received a PhD in environmental engineering from Columbia Southern University, an MS in pharmaceutical chemistry from Duquesne University, and an MS in industrial hygiene from the University of Pittsburgh. He is trained in toxicology (particularly inhalation) and has performed both toxicological and cancer research.