October 23 @ 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm EDT
Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), which can interfere with the body’s hormones, are found in many common products, yet figuring out where they are and how to reduce exposure can be surprisingly difficult. Ingredient lists are confusing, information is scattered and sometimes conflicting, and even scientists don’t always have easy answers.
Emily Hilz, PhD, created Endoscreen to help bridge that gap. Endoscreen is a free app and web platform that allows people to screen their personal care products for potential EDCs, track their routine exposures, and find practical ways to reduce them. The platform grew out of Hilz’s research as an environmental health scientist studying how EDCs affect hormones, the brain, behavior, and metabolism, and has received three U.S. Department of Health and Human Services EDC Innovator Awards.
In this roundtable, Hilz will discuss how her team has turned EDC scientific research into a practical consumer tool, what they have learned along the way, and where Endoscreen is headed next – including the team’s efforts to build a much larger source of retail, ingredient, and EDC data for researchers and consumers alike. Ultimately, the idea behind Endoscreen is simple: give people the information they need to know what they are using.
