What you don't know can hurt you. Hexane : the new asbestos

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For 70 years, a neurotoxic gasoline has been used on a massive scale to produce vegetable oils and natural extracts. It’s called hexane and it passes as residue in the food chain and is detectable in our blood and urine. Learn how this proven neurotoxic and reprotoxic agent is silently destroying the health and lives of hundreds of millions of people around the world causing infertility, MS, Parkinson’s and polyneuropathies. And listen how his impunity is now coming to an end. Laurence Jacques is a scientist, graduated from Ecole Polytechnique and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines, in Paris. She has 30 years’ experience in industry, with technical, operational and leadership roles. She has been working on the EcoXtract project since 2017, to develop a safe plant-based substitute to hexane. Today the solution is available in Europe. It is patented, approved for food extraction and can substitute hexane in existing extraction facilities with limited modifications. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community.