SBIR/STTR Research Award
SAFER PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS
Award amount
$150,955Program and phase
SBIR · Phase IAward year
2014Award details
- Awarding agency
- Department of Health and Human Services
- Branch
- National Institutes of Health
- Recipient company
- CERTICHEM INC
- Proposal award date
- Not reported
- Contract end date
- Not reported
- UEI
- DJCLLPHN8383
- Solicitation number
- PA14-071
- Topic code
- NIEHS
Research abstract
? DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Personal care products (PCPs) are non-prescription products applied to the body (e.g., hair colorants, shampoos, conditioners, skin lotions, deodorants, suntan lotions, lipstick, makeups, nail polishes, etc.). Daily, the average consumer uses 10 cosmetic products, totaling 126 ingredients, most not listed on the label. Peer- reviewed papers report that ingestion or absorption of chemicals having estrogenic and/or androgenic activity (EA**/AnA**) by mammals (including humans) can possibly cause various adverse health effects including uterine dysfunction, higher rates of some cancers, reduced sperm count, and abnormal brain maturation, disorders of attention, motivation, emotion, cognitive development, and changes inaggressive behavior and sexual orientation. These adverse effects may sometimes occur at very low (picomolar to nanomolar) concentrations, especially on fetal or developing mammals. CertiChem's (CCi's) peer-reviewed papers and preliminary data show that P
Technology keywords
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Other awards by this recipient
Verified by the same UEI. These are other public SBIR/STTR award pages, not a merged company record.
- VALIDATION OF AN IN VITRO ASSAY FOR ANDROGENIC ACTIVITY
- VALIDATION OF AN IN VITRO ASSAY FOR ANDROGENIC ACTIVITY
- SBIR Phase II:Food Antioxidants (AOs) With or Without Estrogenic Activity (EA)
- SBIR Phase II: Food Antioxidants (AOs) With or Without Estrogenic Activity (EA)
- SBIR Phase I: Food Antioxidants (AOs) With or Without Estrogenic Activity (EA)
Awards with the same topic code
Verified by an exact topic code match. This is not a text-similarity match.
- Bioinspired Green Glycolipids as Fugitive Dust Mitigation Agents
- Supercritical Fluid Cartridges for Calibration of Air Pollution Sensors
- Weight Loss and Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs): Lifestyle interventions to lose weight and reduce EDC exposure in individuals with overweight/obesity
- High-Resolution Ground-Level AQ Monitoring System Using Hyper-local Low-cost Sensor Nodes and AI Forecasting
- Bringing PFAS Monitoring Home: An Integrated Magnetic Nanoparticle and Lateral Flow Assay System
Research funding history
10 SBIR/STTR records share this UEI (2002–2016). Reported award amounts total $5,067,084. Reported amounts are not federal obligations.
Phases: Phase II, Phase I
Agencies: Department of Health and Human Services, National Science Foundation