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Karen Pendergrass
Karen Pendergrass is a standards architect, translational microbiome researcher, and founder whose work connects contaminant evidence, heavy-metal exposure, microbial ecology, and third-party certification. Her research integrates microbial metallomics, food metallomics, trace-metal biology, toxicology, regulatory science, and computational microbiome signature analysis. She develops transparent, versioned, source-traceable research, laboratory-evidence, and certification systems.
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