Identifying endocrine disruptors at home and making lifestyle choices to protect our health.
Many potentially harmful chemicals are used during the production of plastics as well as other everyday consumer products. These substances often remain in the final product and can leach out during the use phase or after disposal.
A significant amount of toxic chemicals have endocrine disrupting characteristic, i.e. may disturb the body’s hormone systems. The health impacts of these widely used chemicals can be profound and life threatening. Cancers, diabetes, kidney, liver, and thyroid impacts, metabolic disorders, neurological impacts, inflammation, alterations to both male and female reproductive development, infertility, and impacts to future generations as a result of germ cell alterations are the consequence of many EDC exposures.
The LIFE ChemBee project introduces tools to identify sources of exposure to endocrine disruptors at home and provides a clear set of recommendations on how to avoid these risk and make lifestyle choices that protect public health. Apart from the CheckED app, learn more from:
- DIY GUIDEBOOK – DETOX YOUR HOME: a step-by-step manual to detoxify your home by walking you through the process room by room. This guidebook was recently adopted to many European languages in collaboration with the LIFE ChemBee partner organisations. Download here: https://thinkbefore.eu/app/uploads/2020/11/BEF_DIY_Guidebook_ENG.pdf Visit the partners websites on the bottom of project home page:https://thinkbefore.eu/en/life-chembee/
- Arnika scientific studies on toxics in consumer products and environment: https://arnika.org/en/publications/toxics
- Plastics, EDCs & Health: A joint report of the Endocrine Society and IPEN network providing the current best knowledge about the effects of endocrine-disrupting chemicals on human health: https://www.endocrine.org/topics/edc/plastics-edcs-and-health
The week following the ESE Congress, join the LIFE ChemBee Scientific Event
20th May 2026 | 13:00 – 15:00 CET | online – REGISTER
A focused scientific meeting on endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC) exposure in a One Health framework.
The event will present how data-driven, app-based approaches can move from awareness to measurable exposure reduction in real-world settings. The event brings together researchers, NGOs and practitioners to discuss implementation evidence, exposure profiling, behaviour change and opportunities for collaboration.
