Changes in Latina Women's Exposure to Cleaning Chemicals Associated with Switching from Conventional to "Green" Household Cleaning Products: The LUCIR Intervention Study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Household cleaning products may be a significant source of chemical exposures, including carcinogens and suspected endocrine disruptors.

Objectives

We characterized exposures during routine household cleaning and tested an intervention to reduce exposures to cleaning product chemicals.

Methods

The Lifting Up Communities with Interventions and Research (LUCIR) Study is a youth-led, community-based intervention project. Youth researchers conducted personal air monitoring with 50 Latina women while they cleaned their homes with their regular cleaning products (preintervention visit) and then 1 week later while they used "green" cleaning products provided by the study (postintervention visit). Air samples were analyzed for volatile and semivolatile organic comp

SUBMITTER: Harley KG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8409434 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature