A Consumer Education Course with Scientific Experiments to Educate Citizens on “Alcohol in Everyday Life”

Abstract

Alcohol, in the different forms in which it is used, contributes to people’s daily lives in various ways: people drink it, it is used in antiseptids, and it is used for fuel. So we chose the theme of alcohol for a series of seminars for consumers. We conducted scientific experiments and chemical demonstrations from two viewpoints to understand the following “Risk Principles”: 1) Examining “Drinkin and Health” by producing ethanol in a bioreactor experiment. 2) Exploring “The Risk Pertaining to Household Goods” by viewing the results of an experiment demonstrating alcohol’s ignitability.