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Master Brewers PodcastEpisode 347: PFAS in BeerThe Linkage between Municipal Water and Brewing Location on PFAS in beer.Special Guests: Emanuele Sozzi and Jennifer Hoponick Redmon.Sponsored By:Hopsteiner: Proximity Malt: BSG: Berkeley Yeast: The Lupulin Exchange: PLAATO: Root Shoot Malting: Amadeus Vanilla: Links:Hold My Beer: The Linkage between Municipal Water and Brewing Location on PFAS in Popular Beverages | Environmental Science & TechnologyPFAS in Beer Tied to Municipal Water ContaminationInteractive PFAS MapperCPSC White Paper
2025-11-1757 min
Tap TalkTT066 - Understanding PFAS and Private Wells (Part 2)In this episode we're concluding a two-part series exploring PFAS and their impact on private well users. Our conversation with Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson and Jennifer Hoponick Redmon dives further into their research efforts and potential applications. Together these episodes offer important foundational understanding as well as new insight on PFAS exposure via well water. Visit drinkingwaterpodcast.org to learn more and find the full show notes for this episode.
2025-10-1640 minTap TalkTT065 - Understanding PFAS and Private Wells (Part 1)In this episode we're kicking off a two-part series exploring PFAS—also known as "forever chemicals"—and their impact on private well users. Jennifer and Steve are joined by Dr. Jacqueline MacDonald Gibson and Jennifer Hoponick Redmon, two leading experts in environmental health and water quality. Together, they break down the science behind PFAS, discuss how these chemicals enter our water supplies, and share new research on exposure risks for private well users. Our conversation explores the challenges, health implications, and ongoing efforts to protect drinking water in rural communities. Visit drinkingwaterpodcast.org to learn more and find...
2025-10-0932 min
The Business of Food with Steve Alexander‘Hold my beer!’ Yours, too, because there may be something bad in it
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“Hold my beer!” has become a popular comeback to try to “out do” another person’s story. But in the audio clip above, researcher Jennifer Hoponick Redmon at RTI International tells WGN’s Steve Alexander that PFAS, so-called “forever chemicals” because they last forever and are nearly everywhere, including our blood.
PFAS are human-made chemicals discovered nearly 100 years ago by accident. They became widely used because of their water-, oil- and stain-repellent properties. Over the decades, they have have been found in surface water, groundwater and municipal water supplies a...
2025-06-3000 min
Choses à Savoir TECH VERTEUn poison invisible dans 95% des bières ?Et si votre bière du week-end contenait autre chose que du malt et du houblon ? Aux États-Unis, des chercheurs ont voulu savoir si la pollution de l’eau potable pouvait aussi se retrouver… dans notre mousse. Et la réponse est oui.L’équipe, basée en Caroline du Nord, s’est intéressée aux PFAS, ces substances chimiques persistantes connues pour contaminer de nombreuses ressources en eau. Surnommées "polluants éternels", elles sont utilisées dans des produits industriels, mais une fois dans la nature, elles s’accrochent. Elles s’infiltrent dans les nappes phréatiques, et...
2025-05-2902 min
In Our Backyard Podcast9. Science for Good: Tackling Lead, PFAS, and Clean Water AccessToday, we’re diving into the world of environmental health and clean water with a leader whose work is improving lives—especially the lives of our youngest and most vulnerable.Our guest is Jennifer Hoponick Redmon, the Senior Director of Environmental Health and Water Quality at RTI International—a nonprofit institute committed to delivering the promise of science for global good. Jennifer is also the founding director of RTI’s CleanPlus® portfolio, which includes the award-winning Clean Water for Carolina Kids™ program. Under her leadership, this initiative has received national recognition for innovation, impact, and community partnership, including t...
2025-05-0946 min
DECAL DownloadEpisode 27 - Clean Water for Georgia KidsSend us a textDECAL is joining the Georgia Department of Education and the nonprofit research institute RTI International to help schools and child care programs test drinking water for lead, communicate about the testing, and remove lead from their drinking and cooking water. Thanks to a federal grant, this testing program is free of charge and good for the health and safety of children and their families. The project is called Clean Water for Georgia Kids…and here to talk about it is Rhonda Parker, Child Care Services Director of Field Operations, Jennifer Hoponick Redmon, the Clea...
2022-03-1525 min