274946 Triclosan Exposure in Healthcare Workers

Tuesday, October 30, 2012 : 3:10 PM - 3:30 PM

Julia MacIsaac, MD, MPH , San Francisco, MacIsaac Environmental Medicine Consulting, San Francisco, CA
Triclosan is a thyroid disrupting chemical and antimicrobial agent widely used in consumer soaps and in healthcare settings, especially in hand hygiene products. However, exposures in healthcare workers, who wash their hands sometimes over thirty times per day, has not previously been described. Using LC-MS/MS methods, we compared triclosan exposure in healthcare workers who use triclosan-containing soap in the workplace to those who work in a triclosan-free soap facility. The results of this study will be presented along with a discussion of other potential sources of non-occupational exposure.

Learning Areas:
Environmental health sciences

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the endocrine disrupting properties of antimicrobials used in hand soaps. 2. Explain potential sources of occupational and environmental exposures to triclosan.

Keywords: Occupational Health, Environmental Health

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am the primary investigator on this study and have been intimately involved with all aspects of study design, recruitment and data analysis.
Any relevant financial relationships? Yes

Name of Organization Clinical/Research Area Type of relationship
NRDC Funder of triclosan study and some of my research time Consultant

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.