Posted on 09/14/2005 1:44:09 PM PDT by WyethSwittenburg
Does danger lurk in your kitchen?
Picture this: a mother is cooking in her kitchen. Are the pots and pans she is cooking in sloooowwwwlllly endangering her family's health? The folks in the scare-mongering biz certainly want you to think so!
Several major media outlets, such as NBC's Today show, have suggested that a chemical compound (PFOA) used to make Teflon and other non-stick coatings may pose a risk to consumers who cook with the Teflon-coated cookware.
Also, two law firms recently filed a $5-billion class-action suit, saying DuPont failed to warn consumers about the dangers of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) a chemical that is supposedly in Teflon.
Teflon products dont contain PFOA. Theyre simply manufactured using PFOA, none of which ends up in the finished product. So the truth of the matter is that your Teflon coated pots and pans are safe.
As usual, though, reporters are confusing the issue and scaring lots of folks. Theyre saying that the Teflon chemical might cause cancer, so your cookware may not be safe.
Guess they haven't read the overwhelming number of articles and reports to the contrary:
Ignore Rumors: Teflon Proven to be Safe. By Henry I. Miller http://www.suntimes.com/output/otherviews/cst-edt-ref29x.html
Fear of Frying. By Chris MacLeod http://www.dcexaminer.com/articles/2005/08/26/opinion/op-ed/ 13oped26macleod.txt
"Teflon Accusation Doesn't Stick" By Michael Fumento http://www.shns.com/shns/g_index2.cfm?action=detail&pk= FUMENTO-07-21-05
Charges Against Teflon Dont Stick by Dr. Elizabeth M. Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H. http://washtimes.com/functions/print.php?StoryID= 20050706-094902-1771r
Help Me Manage My Worry. By Linwood Barclay http://www.thestar.com/ [subscription, archives]
"Cancer Not in the Kitchen." By Chris MacLeod http://www.consumeralert.org/teflon.htm
Teflon Coated Baloney. By Charlotte Allen http://www.iwf.org/inkwell/default.asp?archiveID=1466
Teflon Non-Stick Science. By Michael D. Shaw http://healthnewsdigest.com/cgi-bin/artman/exec/ view.cgi?archive=12&num=2342
Static
You're doomed! Doomed, I tell you!
It doesn't! Teflon coated cookware is cheap crap. We only use iron, stainless steel or glass cookware.
it shows
I have a styrofoam wok.
did you ever hear of a pirate with heart burn ?
LOL
LOL! Great post.
As long as they're NATURAL it's okay!.............
Well of course.
Nada.
I was trying to be funny, but I guess I failed! I don't know if they freep or not. When we were in the Air Force, people would say, "Oh, you're in the AF, do you know Bob?" as if we knew all 180K airmen.
Brad and Sherrill live in Decatur and he works on the space shuttle projects.
I guess it depends on which brand one uses. I have arthritis in my wrists so I can't use really heavy pans; they end up on the floor when the wrist goes out. VERY messy! :)
I figured that was it. When I was in the AF people would do the same thing.
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