Influence of living in the same home on biomonitored levels of consumer product chemicals.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Individuals living in the same home may share exposures from direct contact with sources or indirectly through contamination of the home environment.

Objective

We investigated the influence of sharing a home on urine levels of ten phenolic chemicals present in some consumer products.

Methods

We used data from Silent Spring Institute's Detox Me Action Kit (DMAK), a crowdsourced biomonitoring program in the US. Of the 726 DMAK participants, 185 lived in the same home with one or more other DMAK participants (n = 137 pairs, up to six participants in a home). The concentration distributions included values below the detection limit so we used statistical methods that account for left-censored data, including non-parametric correlation estimation and hierarchica

SUBMITTER: Dodson RE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9731902 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature