Chemistry World Podcast

September 2007 

1.52 Radioactive fallout from the Chernobyl disaster has been linked with impaired mental development in Swedish children 

4.57 Drug molecules routinely pass through wastewater treatments unscathed - but chemists may have found a solution 

7.26 Interview: Clifford Rosen, from the Maine Center for Osteoporosis, Bangor, US, says controversy over the safety of diabetes drug Avandia proves the US Food and Drug Administration needs a radical overhaul 

13.07 Millions of toys have recently been recalled because of poisonous lead in paint coatings. We explain why lead was added to the paint, and what should have replaced it 

15.23 Penguin guano is concentrating organic pollutants in the Antarctic 

19.15 Interview: Chemists are fighting the fraudsters who adulterate food, explains Peter Berry Ottoway, consultant at the UK Institute of Food Science and Technology 

25.38 Interview: LSD and other psychedelic drugs could find clinical use, says Harvard's John Halpern 

31.03 Does the hair of the dog cure hangovers? And a sticky conundrum for you to ponder 

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