A Consumer Education Course with Scientific Experiments to Educate Citizens About Alcohol in Everyday Life: A Continuing Study

Abstract

Alcohol, in its different forms, affects peoples’ daily lives in various ways. We chose the topic of alcohol for a series of seminars for consumers. Scientific experiments and chemical demonstrations were conducted from two perspectives to help consumers understand the following risks: 1) Drinking and health which was examined by producing ethanol in a bioreactor experiment. 2) Exploring the danger of alcohol in relationship to household goods by viewing the results of an experiment demonstrating alcohol’s flammability. Building upon our previous research, we report on the seminar with a focus on the second risk point.