Dr. Aly Cohen
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first heard Apr 2025
last heard May 2025
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The active ingredient had lower risk, but whatever was revealed in the inactive was not good, and that made up 99%. And I was even telling the people that worked for this company who were spraying, they were flabbergasted because I wanted them to understand what chemicals they were handling, especially young people handling these without gloves.
So you really want to be thinking about exposures occupationally, in your home, and really do your research. But steam cleaning... If you just get a steam cleaner, it's very reasonable. And if you're going to wash your laundry, I mean, I tend to just, you know, have certain things that need to be wrinkled, you know, to be washed.
And then I will iron them with my own steamer or have a steamer machine. There's a lot of better ways than dry cleaning, I think, that people can get through this process.
Yeah, and you can even put this away, by the way, outside your home. So say you really do need to dry clean stuff, right? Because life is life, right?
Keep it outdoors. Don't let it come into your home and put it in the foyer closet, which a lot of people do. Keep it in the garage. Keep it outside your home. Let it off gas for at least a couple of days, if not more, and then bring it in. Because that way you're removing a lot of the chemicals that are called volatile organic compounds that are harmful.
that play into health issues that you breathe in that become your dust and so on and so forth. So just keep it out of your home.
Right. Number one super fun site in the country is our state.
Oh, you know, well, we're the we're the what is it? The veggie state where the the green state of growing. But, you know, our soil is pretty bad and I wouldn't be surprised about that. But, you know, there are parts of New Jersey that are extraordinarily beautiful.
You just have to say what exit you're from.
The garden state. That's what it is.
That's what we call it.
Yeah, well, basically, plastic is human-made chemicals put together. It was great in the 1940s when they were discovered, you know, polyethylene glycol. I mean, all these components of plastics, you know, that gave us rayon and naugahyde and formica and plexiglass. I mean, these are things we've heard of that were designed to make life convenient, right? You drop dishes. They don't break.
Really great for, you know, the 50s moms. and so on and so forth. But in terms of the matrix of plastics in general, plastics break down. It's not like stainless steel. It's not like glass. These are materials that are, although they're designed temporarily to do what their job is to contain things often, amongst other things, they really do break down.
And you know this when you take brand new Tupperware, right? If you get plastic containers, that you're going to use for storage and you put them in the dishwasher under high heat and multiple uses and scratches, they become opaque. You cannot see through them anymore. And that's owned to the fact that these materials are breaking down and making them cloudy.
And plastics also can be infused with lots of pretty bad chemicals, right? So plastics can have antimicrobials, so cutting boards. You know, thinking about microplastics as one component, but also the chemicals that are infused into plastics because they are able to absorb some of these added chemicals, right? Because again, the matrix is not very strong.
So the general rule is, you know, they are convenient. And unfortunately, they're part of our food system. But we can work around it. Plenty of solutions in the book. But the idea is that you do not want to heat them or scratch them up because that makes them more likely, just like the, you know, the nonstick pans to get into the foods and drinks that they carry.
So in our household, yeah, we have frozen foods that are in plastics when we, you know, we live like everybody else. But my kids are really good at switching their stuff into glass and stainless steel to heat up. I used to use steamer bags for years, even while I was researching chemicals, because it was so convenient that it really didn't even occur to me.
And it turns out that those steaming baths, which, you know, really do heat up to high temperatures, they're dropping those microplastics in the condensation inside the bag into the food. So just thinking about one extra step and having the right inexpensive cookware and storageware, you're done. You know, these are the swaps that make life easy and you keep moving.
Yeah, you know, you shouldn't need Tupperware. If you're thinking about kids, you know, we use stainless steel for when I had kids growing, you know, if they dropped a cup or a plate, you know, so be it. It didn't crack and break. You can also use plastic lids. I mean, you know, as long as it's not touching foods, it's very convenient, especially when you're taking food to work or you have...
you know, foods for kids on the go. But in general, you want to avoid plastic for storage and for cooking wherever you can, you know, avoid it. I mean, it's really hard because our food system is so filled with single-use plastics.
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