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FDA Public Health Agency Hiring

The Food Safety and Inspection Service has an opening in the Athens area.

Job title: Chemist 
Employer: Food Safety and Inspection Service
Job description: 

  • Performs analytical services associated with detecting chemical residues in meat and poultry products. Wet chemistry extraction and clean-up techniques include liquid/liquid extraction and solid phase extraction.
  • Performs chemical analyses of increasing complexity to determine the presence of parts per billion levels of pesticides and veterinary drugs by means of complex, selective and highly sensitive instrumentation. 
  • Troubleshoots all instrumentation used in the analysis process.
Qualifications: Demonstrate successful completion of a full four-year course of study in an accredited college or university leading to a bachelor's or higher degree in the physical or life sciences that included 30 semester hours in chemistry, supplemented by coursework in mathematics through differential and integral calculus, and at least 6 semester hours of physics, as well as 52 weeks of progressively responsible specialized experience 
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