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ZeroPMEpisode 14: Chemical Stripes – Visualizing Chemical Trends of the Past Influencing Today - with Dagny Aurich and Emma SchymanskiLive from SETAC Europe 2023 - Raoul Wolf hosts a series of ZeroPM podcasts. In this episode he interviews Dagny Aurich and Emma Schymanski from the Univesity of Luxembourg about how the "climate stripes" data visualisation approach for climate change was adapted to "chemical stripes" to show the increasing ubiquity of persistent compounds in society and the enviornment.
The number of chemicals threatening global health is rising rapidly, with increasing numbers of persistent compounds accumulating in our environment. There are alarming signals that elimination of existing and prevention of further contamination can no longer be delayed. Communicating this...
2023-06-1808 minZeroPMEpisode 13: Need information on transformation products? There's an app for that! - with Emma PalmLive from SETAC Europe 2023 - Raoul Wolf hosts a series of ZeroPM podcasts. In this episode he interviews Emma Palm (Univesity of Luxembourg) about an app she developed to curate transformation product results, shiny TPs!
An important consideration for understanding the hazards posed from different compounds is the transformation products (TPs) they form once they enter the environment. Unfortunately, there is much less information available for TPs than their parent compounds, while most of the information is text based in journal articles and databases. This makes it difficult to access and include into identification workflows based on...
2023-06-1106 minZeroPMEpisode 12: Approaching variable data when assessing substance mobility - with Sivani BaskaranLive from SETAC Europe 2023 - Raoul Wolf hosts a series of ZeroPM podcasts. In this episode he interviews Sivani Baskaran (Norwegian Geotechnical Institute) about the how to assess mobility in relation to the new chemical hazard classes PMT and vPvM. Chemical hazard and risk assessments often use
physical-chemical properties to categorize and identify chemicals of concerns. Recently, the European Commission introduced a draft revision of the classification, labelling and packaging (CLP) legislation that contained new chemical hazard categories, including persistent, mobile, and toxic (PMT) and very persistent and very mobile (vPvM) substances. Persistence is derived from the simulated half-life...
2023-06-0506 minZeroPMEpisode 11: The Implementation of the Essential-Use concept in the REACH regulation - with Romain Figuière
Live from SETAC 2023 - Raoul Wolf hosts a series of ZeroPM podcasts. In this episode he interviews Romain Figuière (Stockholm University) about the implementation of the Essential-Use concept in the REACH regulation. With ZeroPM colleagues, they approach this using "intentionally added microplastics" as a case study, by considering whether in products that #microplastics were essentially added to were essential for their uses, according to the current definition of the Essential-Use concept.
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2023-05-2906 minZeroPMEpisode 10: The Science-Policy Panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution - with Joanke van DijkLive from SETAC 2023 - Raoul Wolf hosts a series of ZeroPM podcasts. In this episode he interviews Joanke van Dijk (University of Amsterdam) about her involvement with SETAC in relation to the establishment of an international Science-Policy Panel to contribute further to the sound management of chemicals and waste and to prevent pollution. The mandate for this panel is currently being negotiated under OEWG1.2 of UNEP. Joanke discusses her hopes for the panel, and in particular what the role is of young scientists.
To follow more of the work of the WP5 Substance Grouping...
2023-05-2206 minZeroPMEpisode 9: Risk should not be made complicated when the hazard is clear - with Hans Peter ArpLive from SETAC 2023 - Raoul Wolf hosts a series of ZeroPM podcasts. In this episode he interviews Hans Peter Arp about his poster "
Risk should not be made complicated when the hazards and exposure are clear", which can be found here.
Different stakeholders will approach scientific uncertainty differently. Scientists are often driven to reduce uncertainty; regulators are driven to act on uncertainty (e.g. by invoking the precautionary principle), and those that are responsible for causing the environmental stress often seek to use scientific uncertainty as basis for inaction or deniability. To cut through these different viewpoints...
2023-05-1508 minZeroPMEpisode 8: Perceptions of risk, risky behaviours and hazardous chemicals with Prof Sabine Pahl and Dr Ellise SuffilIn this podcast, Prof Sabine Pahl and Dr Ellise Suffill (Environmental Psychology, University of Vienna) discuss the importance of understanding different groups’ ideas about risk, and how social sciences can help us to better understand when and why risky behaviours (including the use of hazardous chemicals) might be deemed essential, or not. If you’d like to learn more about the research discussed in this podcast, please check out the references below:
Slovic, P. (1988). Risk perception. Carcinogen risk assessment, 171-181.
Kahan, D. M., Braman, D., Gastil, J., Slovic, P., & Mertz, C. K. (2007). Culture and identity‐protec...
2023-03-0127 minZeroPMEpisode 7: PMT substances threaten water resources! The need for sustainable solutions with Wolfgang DeinleinWolfgang Deinlein is Managing Director of the IAWR, the International Association of the Waterworks in the Rhine Area. He also plays a key central role in disseminating the European River Memorandum (ERM) and the European Groundwater Memorandum of the ERM Coalition, which consists of drinking water supply associations representing the interest of 188 million people in the river basins of Rhine (IAWR, AWBR, ARW, RIWA-Rijn) and Ruhr (AWWR), Danube (IAWD), Elbe (AWE), Meuse (RIWA-Meuse) and Scheldt (RIWA-Scheldt). Both memorandums highlight the needs to protect Europe's drinking water resources and that #PMT / #vPvM and #PFAS substances represent a threat that needs pr...
2023-02-1431 minZeroPMThe PMT Substances SongIn ZeroPM's first video, Hans Peter Arp sings about some of #PMT and #vPvM substances prioritized by the German Environment Agency. For the full list, see here: https://zenodo.org/record/6482414#.Y-bIanbMI2x Details will be published in a forthcoming report: Prioritised PMT/vPvM substances in the REACH registration database, TEXTE 21/2023
The music video of the song can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JAUeKIWIppk
For more info on ZeroPM, please visit our website at zeropm.eu. ZeroPM has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant ag...
2023-02-1001 minZeroPMEpisode 6: What would be different had Rachel Carson discovered PFAS instead of DDT in Silent SpringSixty years ago, the American writer, scientist, and ecologist Rachel Carson published her book, Silent Spring, exposing the hazards of the pesticide DDT on the environment. For the first time, the need to regulate the industry to protect the environment became widely accepted, and environmentalism was born.
Sarah Hale and Hans Peter Arp lead the EU research and innovation project ZeroPM to tackle pollution from thousands of hazardous PM substances. They ask: What would be different had Rachel Carson discovered PFAS rather than DDT? And what key lesson should be learned to avoid more Silent Springs from happening...
2022-12-0714 min
NGI - Med blikket mot bakkenEU-prosjekt skal finne løsninger på usynlig forurensningSarah Hale og Hans Peter Arp er to av de fremste forskerne på PM-stoffer. De leder det store EU-prosjektet ZeroPM, som skal finne løsninger på denne gigantiske utfordringen. Hør hvordan de går fram og hva du som forbruker kan gjøre for å unngå varer som sprer kjemisk forurensning. Gjester: Sarah Hale, seniorspesialist Bærekraftige geoløsninger og prosjektkoordinator for ZeroPM, Hans Peter Arp, teknisk ekspert Miljøkjemi og visekoordinator for ZeroPM Programleder: Liv Røhnebæk Bjergene
2022-10-2821 minZeroPMEpisode 5: PFAS in rain exceeds safe levels and its planetary boundary! A break down of the science with Ian Cousins, interviewed by Hans Peter ArpZeroPM's Ian Cousins and his colleagues recently published a paper that has been an absolute blockbuster. It has been picked up by every major news outlet, and within three weeks has been downloaded over 160 thousand times. The paper is called "Outside the Safe Operating Space of a New Planetary Boundary for PFAS". The paper talks about how PFAS levels in rain, water and soils have exceeded safe levels fro the planet, and how their concentrations are slowly reversible. Now an issue though is that a lot of media have gotten some the science wrong, and there has been issues wi...
2022-08-1936 minZeroPMEpisode 4: What are persistent and mobile pollutants and how can we avoid them? - with Sarah Hale and Hans Peter ArpIn this episode, Liv Bjergene from the host institute for the project, the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute (NGI), interviews the project coordinator Sarah Hale and deputy coordinator Hans Peter H. Arp, about why the project ZeroPM is so important to protect human health and the environment from persistent and mobile substances. In particular, the NGI is after practical examples listeners can use to avoid persistent and mobile substances.
For more information about ZeroPM, please visit our website at zeropm.eu.
ZeroPM is a research and innovation project funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation...
2022-08-0117 min
ZeroPMEpisode 3: Alternatives Assessment. How to find alternatives to PFAS that are not regrettable Part 1 - with Ian Cousins, Luc Miaz, Eleni Savvidou and Romain Figuière from Stockholm University.In this episode, we hear a discussion from the Alternatives Assessment team at Stockholm University, comprising of the Prof. Ian Cousins (lead of WP2 Alternatives Assessment) and three of his PhD students, Luc Miaz, Eleni Savvidou and Romain Figuière. The team introduce their various projects that they have recently embarked on to find alternatives to PFAS and other persistent and mobile substances. Their ambitions are all centered around the expansion of a "use database" for the purposes of addressing essential use and how to avoid regrettable substitution, which will be made also with input from other members of Z...
2022-06-2808 minZeroPMEpisode 2D: Substance Grouping. Open, cleanly, everything with Raoul WolfIn this four-part series, we meet four researchers who bravely seek to tame the chemical universe, boldly enabling a future of zero pollution of persistent and mobile substances. To do so, they are developing a strategy of Substance Grouping. All this is part of work package 5 (WP5) of ZeroPM.
In the final installment of this four part series, Hans Peter Arp interviews Raoul Wolf of NGI, Norway. He will explain how a brilliant ecotoxicologist recognized the importance of clean, open data to advance the big data problems facing our time. Raoul presents the ambition of removing the...
2022-06-2011 minZeroPMEpisode 2C: Substance Grouping. Stop regretting everything with Hans Peter ArpIn this four-part series, we meet four researchers who bravely seek to tame the chemical universe, boldly enabling a future of zero pollution of persistent and mobile substances. To do so, they are developing a strategy of Substance Grouping. All this is part of work package 5 (WP5) of ZeroPM.
In the third of this four part series, Raoul Wolf interviews the deputy coordinator of ZeroPM Hans Peter Arp of NGI, Norway and NTNU, Norway. He will explain how through embracing the chemical universe and engaging cheminformatics, society can transition through the failed Paracelsus based strategy of regulating...
2022-06-2010 minZeroPMEpisode 2B: Substance Grouping. Inventorizing everything with Zhanyun WangIn this four-part series, we meet four researchers who bravely seek to tame the chemical universe, boldly enabling a future of zero pollution of persistent and mobile substances. To do so, they are developing a strategy of Substance Grouping. All this is part of work package 5 (WP5) of ZeroPM.
In the second of this four part series, Raoul Wolf interviews Zhanyun Wang of EMPA, Switzerland. He will explain the arduous effort it is to compile the chemicals on the global chemical inventory. This is often referred to as an iceberg because we know a few chemicals on...
2022-06-2008 minZeroPMEpisode 2A: Substance Grouping. Transforming everything with Emma SchymanskiIn this four-part series, we meet four researchers who bravely seek to tame the chemical universe, boldly enabling a future of zero pollution of persistent and mobile substances. To do so, they are developing a strategy of Substance Grouping. All this is part of work package 5 (WP5) of ZeroPM.
In the first of this four part series, Raoul Wolf interviews Emma Schymanski of the University of Luxembourg. She will explain what cheminformatics is and how it can solve all the world's chemical problems. In particular Emma Schymanski explains how understanding transformation reactions can help prevent persistent and m...
2022-06-2006 min
ZeroPMEpisode 1: Introducing the ZeroPM podcastHi! Welcome to the first episode of the ZeroPM podcast! At the ZeroPM podcast we will discuss wide-ranging aspects about protecting the environment and human health from pollution caused by persistent and mobile substances, such as PFAS and PMT/vPvM substances.
ZeroPM is a transdisciplinary project that will prevent them, prioritize them and remove them. In our first episode, the project coordinator, Sarah Hale, and deputy coordinator, Hans Peter Arp, have a chat about what PFAS and PMT substances are, the need for the project ZeroPM, and introduce the multi-faceted aspects of the project itself. In future po...
2022-06-1620 min