Episode 2C: Substance Grouping. Stop regretting everything with Hans Peter Arp

In 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 based on "one-substance-one-problematic-dose" that has been inefficient in addressing the rapid expansion of the global chemical inventory, towards the solution of "problematic-substance-group-therefore-no-dose". This will be a key strategy to prevent the pollution of persistent and mobile substances in drinking water resources. To follow more of the work of the WP5 Substance Grouping team, follow our Zenodo Community, GitHub and of course ZeroPM.eu. Recorded during the first real-life meet-up of the ZeroPM WP5 team at SETAC Copenhagen, May 16'th, 2022. 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 programme under grant agreement No 101036756.