Biomarkers of human exposure to personal care products : results from the Flemish Environment and Health Study (FLEHS 20072011)

Abstract: Personal care products (PCPs), such as soaps, perfumes, cosmetics, lotions, etc., contain a variety of chemicals that have been described as potentially hormone disrupting chemicals. Therefore, it is important to assess the internal exposure of these chemicals in humans. Within the 2nd Flemish Environment and Health Study (FLEHS II, 20072011), the human exposure to three classes of pollutants that are present in a wide variety of PCPs i.e. polycyclic musks (galaxolide, HHCB and tonalide, AHTN in blood), parabens (urinary para-hydroxybenzoic acid, HBA) and triclosan (urinary TCS) was... Mehr ...