Meet the Medicine – Betadine! Did you know NASA used Betadine to sterilise spaceships? Watch out video to find out more! 👽🛸🚀

Thanks to the EM workshop students who collaborated with us on this video. #CitSciMonth #SciComm #MTM21
[1. Presentation entitled Meet the Medicines by Breaking Good.
2. Introducing povidine iodine. Displaying chemical structure of povidine iodine.
3. First approved in 1985 as an antiseptic.
4. It is applied as a liquid and is better known as Betadine.]
5. Before Betadine, iodine was used in world war one to prevent wound infections.
6. Betadine was used by NASA to sterilise the Apollo 11 spaceship to kill any bacteria that might have hitched a ride back to Earth.]
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