Product Data for Public Health: Clearya case studies

A selection of devices have been produced for accumulating consumer item information and making it readily available for research study. This webinar will discover one such item. The Clearya application was produced initially to offer a means for people to gather details on chemicals in consumer products they are thinking about for acquisition, or are already utilizing.

As users connect with the app, data on products and their ingredients is instantly collected, analyzed, and included in the data source. Over millions of uses, this process has transformed the application into a comprehensive and progressively rich source of information on a variety of individual items.

Structure on this facilities, Clearya has actually currently been used in many researches by regulatory authorities, advocates and researchers, giving a way to gather information on chemicals in individual care products, to evaluate people’ exposures, and to find out more concerning exactly how chemicals in products may vary throughout geographic areas and types of retail setups. It is additionally being made use of to analyze the accuracy of chemical hazard info supplied to employees through Safety Data Sheets.

In this webinar, Amit Rosner offered an array of methods in which the Clearya application and environmental wellness and justice platform have been used in public health and wellness research study studies, consisting of hyperlocal analysis of occurrence of chemicals of concern in items offered across details community, individual care product usage patterns, mass testing of chemicals in items marketed to Black ladies and ladies, and accuracy testimonials of security data sheets, among other projects.

Charlotte Brody talked about a collaboration between BlueGreen Alliance and Clearya to review the accuracy of security data sheets. Dr. Elissia Franklin gave extra information concerning how Clearya has actually been incorporated right into recurring research on ladies’s direct exposures to hazardous chemicals in individual care products.