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Science Magazine Podcast

Getting BPA out of food containers, and tracing minute chemical mixtures in the environment

Science Magazine Podcast

Science Podcast

News, News Commentary, Science

4.3842 Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2020

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

As part of a special issue on chemicals for tomorrow’s Earth, we’ve got two green chemistry stories. First, host Sarah Crespi talks with contributing correspondent Warren Cornwell about how a company came up with a replacement for the popular can lining material bisphenol A and then recruited knowledgeable critics to test its safety.   Sarah is also joined by Beate Escher of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research and the University of Tübingen to discuss ways to trace complex mixtures of humanmade chemicals in the environment. They talk about how new technologies can help detect these mixtures, understand their toxicity, and eventually connect their effects on the environment, wildlife, and people.   Read more in the special issue on chemicals for tomorrow’s Earth.   This week’s episode was edited by Podigy.   Listen to previous podcasts.   About the Science Podcast   Download a transcript (PDF) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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This podcast is supported by the Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, one of America's leading research medical schools.

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Icon Mount Sinai is the academic arm of the eight hospital Mount Sinai health system in New York City.

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It's consistently among the top recipients of NIH funding.

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Researchers at Icon Mount Sinai have made breakthrough discoveries in many fields vital to

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advancing the health of patients, including cancer, COVID and long COVID, cardiology, neuroscience, and

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artificial intelligence. The Icon School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, we find a way. Morgan State

0:37.3

University, a Baltimore, Maryland,

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Carnegie R2 doctoral research institution, offers more than 100 academic programs and awards

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degrees at the baccalaureate, master's, and doctoral levels, is furthering their mission of

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growing the future leading the world. Morgan continues to address the needs and challenges of the modern urban environment.

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With a four-year quadrupling of research, more than a dozen new doctoral programs,

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and eight new national centers of excellence, Morgan is positioned to achieve Carnegie R1

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designation in the next five years.

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To learn more about Morgan and their ascension to R1, visit morgan.edu.

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combe.

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Welcome to the size podcast for January 24th, 2020.

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I'm Sarah Crespi.

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On this week's show, we got two green chemistry stories as part of a special issue of the magazine.

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First, contributing correspondent Warren Cornwall talks about a company that came up with a replacement for the popular can lining material,

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bisphenol A or BPA, with help from

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the chemicals critics.

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And Biatta Escher joins us to discuss the complex mixtures of human-made chemicals in the environment.

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