1 Title: Reducing Phthalate, Paraben, and Phenol Exposure from Personal Care Products in 2 Adolescent Girls: Findings from the HERMOSA Intervention Study 3 Authors: Kim G. Harley1, Katherine Kogut1, Daniel S. Madrigal1, Maritza Cardenas1, Irene A. 4 Vera1, Gonzalo Meza-Alfaro1, Jianwen She2, Qi Gavin2, Rana Zahedi2, Asa Bradman1, Brenda 5 Eskenazi1, Kimberly L. Parra3 6 7 1 Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH), UC Berkeley, Berkeley, 8 CA, USA 9 2 Environmental Health Laboratory, California Department of Public Heath, Richmond, CA, 10 USA 11 3 Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas, Salinas, CA, USA 12 13 Corresponding Author: 14 15 Kim G. Harley 16 Center for Environmental Research and Children’s Health (CERCH), 17 UC Berkeley 18 1995 University Ave, Suite 265 19 Berkeley, CA 94704 20 Telephone: 510-643-1310 21 Email:
[email protected] 22 23 24 Running Title: Reducing exposure from personal care products 25 26 Acknowledgments: This research was supported by funds from the California Breast Cancer 27 Research Grants Program Office of the University of California, grant number 18BB-1800. 28 29 Competing financial interests: The authors declare they have no actual or potential competing 30 financial interests. 31 32 Word count: 6879 words 1 33 Abstract 34 35 Background: Personal care products are a major source of exposure to endocrine disrupting 36 chemicals such as phthalates, parabens, triclosan, and benzophenone-3 (BP-3), particularly for 37 adolescent girls. 38 Methods: We enrolled 100 Latina girls in a youth-led, community-based participatory research 39 intervention study to determine whether using personal care products whose labels stated they 40 did not contain these chemicals for three days could lower urinary concentrations.