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DuPont Teflon Ingredient's Health Risks
Sat Mar 26, 2005 7:30 am |
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http://www.enn.com/today.html?id=6949
January 18, 2005 — By Michael Hawthorne, Chicago Tribune
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scientists are finding perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, in the blood of people worldwide and it takes years for the chemical to leave the body. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported last week that exposure even to low levels of PFOA could be harmful.
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"The fact that a chemical with those non-stick properties nonetheless accumulates in people was not expected," said Charles Auer, director of the EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics.
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One document detailed how DuPont scientists started warning company executives to avoid human contact with PFOA as early as 1961. Industry tests later determined the chemical accumulates in the body, doesn't break down in the environment and causes ailments in animals, including cancer, liver damage and birth defects.
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Scientists still aren't sure how PFOA is spreading around the planet. While DuPont says the manufacturing process leaves only trace amounts of the chemical in non-stick cookware and other goods, some researchers think that as Teflon products age they release chemicals that then break down into PFOA.
The compound also is released into air and water during manufacturing. Studies that have found PFOA in salmon in the Great Lakes, polar bears in the Arctic and dolphins in the Mediterranean Sea suggest the chemical travels easily through the atmosphere.
Another theory the EPA and academic researchers are testing is that other perfluorinated chemicals, known as telomers, break down to PFOA. Made by DuPont and other companies, telomers are used in stain- and grease-repellent coatings for carpets, clothing and fast-food packaging.
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Last spring, former DuPont chemist Glenn R. Evers told a lawyer for people living near the DuPont plant that the chemicals can be absorbed from french fry boxes, microwave popcorn bags and hamburger wrappers, among other items, according to a partial transcript filed by the EPA. The company responded by describing Evers as a disgruntled former employee with little direct knowledge of PFOA.
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Sat Mar 26, 2005 2:40 pm |
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Holy shit. Wonder when the balloon (sp?) explodes?
We're all going to be a pile of fat-soluble, toxic and carcinogenic chemicals sooner or later...
I'd better practise hedonism more often... |
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IndoleAmine
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Sat Mar 26, 2005 4:32 pm |
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Yes, and then all those acrylamides being made by frying carbon hyrates....
(one theory says that such "vogue" poisons only become poisonous as soon as they become known as being unhealthy, or so I read - remember that mankind has fried carbonhydrates in hot oil for loooong since now, and we're still alive... .....and the x-ray damage normal subjects suffer from when climbing high montains doesn't exist at all in native indians residing in the Andes, where the daily x-ray exposure is VERY high.... )
...but teflon being toxic - the thought is still a bit scary though...
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