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Indoor air / Review of other studies
Diethyl phthalate (DEP), the phthalate most consistently tied to fragrance use, has been detected in household dust in a German study, alongside the plasticizer phthalates DEHP, DINP, and DBP.
Weak evidence.
Caveats
Relayed secondhand through Crinnion 2010, a narrative review in a naturopathic-medicine journal already flagged elsewhere in this evidence base for reproducing outdated/imprecise figures; the underlying German house-dust study itself is not in our evidence base and has not been checked directly. Presence in dust does not establish that fragrance products (rather than other DEP sources, e.g. plastics) are the dust's source, and does not establish an ongoing-exposure mechanism or a health effect.
Source: German house-dust study, via Crinnion 2010, Alternative Medicine Review Link to this fact
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