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ArticleEnvironmental science & technology2023

Identifying Toxic Consumer Products: A Novel Data Set Reveals Air Emissions of Potent Carcinogens, Reproductive Toxicants, and Developmental Toxicants.

Kristin E Knox, Robin E Dodson, Ruthann A Rudel, Claudia Polsky, Megan R Schwarzman

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Article in Environmental science & technology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
11citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
7.4field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 31 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Kristin E KnoxSilent Spring Institute, Newton, Massachusetts 02460 United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6425-8914
Robin E DodsonSilent Spring Institute, Newton, Massachusetts 02460 United States.ORCID 0000-0001-7356-9511
Ruthann A RudelSilent Spring Institute, Newton, Massachusetts 02460 United States.ORCID 0000-0002-1809-4127
Claudia PolskySchool of Law, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 United States.
Megan R SchwarzmanSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 United States.ORCID 0000-0002-6333-1822
Silent Spring Institute · USUniversity of California, Berkeley · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Consumer products are important sources of exposure to harmful chemicals. Product composition is often a mystery to users, however, due to gaps in the laws governing ingredient disclosure. A unique data set that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) uses to determine how volatile organic chemicals (VOCs) from consumer products affect smog formation holds a partial solution. By analyzing CARB data on VOCs in consumer products, we identified and quantified emissions of volatile chemicals regulated under the California Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act ("Prop 65"). We here highlight individual chemicals as well as consumer product categories that people are likely to be exposed to as individual consumers, in the workplace, and at the population level. Of the 33 Prop 65-listed chemicals that appear in the CARB emissions inventory, we classified 18 as "top tier priorities for elimination". Among these, methylene chloride and

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Environmental ExposureVolatile Organic CompoundsCarcinogensHazardous SubstancesHumansReproductionCarcinogensHazardous SubstancesVolatile Organic Compoundscarcinogensconsumer product exposuresemissionsingredientsProp 65regulationreproductive/developmental toxicantsVOCs

Identifiers

PMID37129244
PMCPMC10193581
OpenAlexW4367669169

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