Imagine if children could grow up without being a receptacle for the thousands of small chemical substances that are in our environment today. That they could avoid being exposed to chemicals that disrupt their hormones (EDC's) and others that cause weight gain and health problems like cancer.
That they could be free to be children.

Toxxscan's service is based on a database.
The database will contain product ingredients, bar codes and chemicals linked to world research on health risks. Building a database like this costs money. We have the strategy, method and algorithms ready to go.

Consumers can check the chemical hazards on the internet and get easy to read, color-coded information that helps you protect yourself and those you love.

Producers of goods, apps, websites get access to unique software with a license to access Toxxscans information and review product ingredients en masse. This reduces use of chemicals with known health risks in production or sales.

You shouldn’t have to be a scientist in order to decipher a label.

Toxxscan started out just like anything else. We had a problem and that problem needed to be solved. In this case it started with chemicals that have a negative influence on our health and lives. For instance phthalates – endocrine disrupting chemicals or EDCs that can be found in most perfumed goods, your evening meal that has been microwaved in plastic or sunscreens that cover your body. By disrupting the endocrine system, these chemicals can be related to numerous health problems affecting reproduction, endocrine-related cancers, obesity and diabetes.  

The scary part is that phthalates are only one example among hundreds and hundreds of chemical compounds that can pose a risk to your health.

Freedom of choice is a birth-right but when it comes to the complex labelling of chemical ingredients its hard to exercise that freedom.  It’s high time to ask ourselves why these dangerous chemicals continue to be used and why it’s so difficult to discover and avoid them?  

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If all you want to know is if a product is safe or not – that's easy. 

The Toxxscan database and service provide these answers by linking to international chemical ingredient data from well known universities and research institutes around the globe.

As a consumer you access the Toxxscan database online. Just write in a chemical ingredient and you have easy access to known chemical health risks. 

Once the database is complete we want to make an app. If you want to scan a barcode and get the ingredients in an app or scanner, your food chain or producer needs to allow access to product barcodes and ingredients. An app or scanner can then dispaly thumbs up or a questionmark depending on the results from the database algorithm. Toxxscan makes ingredients easier to read and health risks understandable.

As a food store owener who takes pride in your range of products, wouldn't you also like to check out possible chemical health risks before taking in new products? You can use the Toxxscan software to check barcodes if all the ingredients are digitally connected to the barcode. This also enables natural advertising of your products giving you a unique edge in the marketplace because your store invites your customers to get full ingredient transparency.

As a producer who needs to know about product safety – we've got your back! Toxxscan's database and software let you run a product ingredient check right in your office – linking you straight to international research.  You can even check your packing ingredients – a common source of EDCs. The software makes it easy to understand and if needed, helps you to find alternative ingredients or packaging. And when you upload your products on the database, Toxxscan gives your company a unique transparency-edge on your competitors.

As a purchaser of food and other articles for preschools, the elderly and healthcare industry, we have the tool that ensures chemical safety in everything you buy. Just run your orders through Toxxscan and find out which products are risk-free. Couldn’t be more simple!

But there is a catch.

The service needed for this product to hit the market is dependant on a huge open source database. 

This is where we need your help.

We need to make the data available for everyone. To do this we need to complete the database. We have a top notch technical team ready to start work. So once we have all gathered the €50 000 needed for this job it should take about 6 months to complete and test.

This is not a lot of money considering what is involved. So we are reaching out to you, the world wide web, to join forces with us. We need to become an unstoppable force, a rolling thunder, a powerful voice that reaches everyone, everywhere. 

And we say everyone,because everyone has the right to know.

Chemical ingredients should not be something that can be hidden, and certainly not something you as a consumer or company should be unable to access. 
Please help us fund the tool that we all need.

So what do you want? Thumbs up? Or thumbs down?

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Thanks to our research and development team the database design is solid. It is designed by Dr Robert Verkerk, from the Alliance for Natural Health International, Dr Fiorella Belpoggi and Dr Daniele Mandrioli, from the Ramazzini Institute, Italy and produced by EnvirohealthMatters and the Toxxscan team as an incubator start-up at UIC, Uppsala Innovation Centre.

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