Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana Soto Part 1: Introduction

Emily Hanson (for Upstream) interviews Drs. Carlos Sonnenschein and Ana Soto of Tufts University.

In this video, Drs. Sonnenschein and Soto tell the fascinating story of how a laboratory accident caused them to stop their research and pursue a new project that would eventually reveal to them how plastic tubes were producing estrogenic activity and set them down a new research path. They also describe how they came to realize that the problem [of estrogenic activity] was probably much more serious than they first suspected.

The full, edited interview is now available on the Upstream Website.

In this introduction, they responded to the following prompts:

Describe your work before you began studying environmental toxins. 00:00:40
What caused you to shift the focus of your research? 00:02:35
Please say more about the unexpected results in your lab and how you responded.00:04:25
Without the manufacturer's assistance, how did you discover what the contaminant was? 00:06:25
What is the contaminant, and how is it used? 00:07:55