Perhaps, if a person were to simply ingest large sums of it over a long period of time. But in the amounts most people are exposed to, I seriously doubt it.
Fiddle.
They had to invent a new glue just to keep teflon on the darned pot. If your gut isn’t as sticky, it’s just gonna pass right through.
“No more Metamucil, Ehthyl, I got the Teflon!”
Are you talking about teflon coated cookware?
Don’t buy cheap, thin non stick cookware and don’t overheat it and replace it if it starts to degrade. Replace it every several years.
I only use non stick for cooking eggs mostly. Buy good regular cook wear for most cooking and learn how to use it
You can use good cast iron skillets and they won’t stick if you season them well.
Teflon has been used been used on pots and pans as a non-stick coating for 30 or 40 years.
Can’t imagine that it could be that dangerous...
They don’t know if it actually causes problems in humans, but it does show up in blood and tissues and in the environment, it takes a long time to degrade.
I don’t know about carcogenic, but a teflon coated bullet will kill you through a bullet-proof vest.
So teflon will definitely kill you.
My understanding is that the fumes from “heated” teflon coated pans can be fatal to pet birds. A friend related to me that their own parrots were found dead in their cage after an oven was left on with an empty teflon-coated pan in it. Or was it a friend of theirs? Anyway, it sounded like heating the pans empty can release harmful fumes and if it can be fatal to birds, what’s it doing to us? Do they still make Teflon stuff???
Teflon Kills Birds. It’s been known for many years that the gas it gives off kills birds.
Well from the deep northwest it may be similar to eating fresh okra .....you know the stuff you have to cross your legs to eat.....just imagine you know snot on a door knob but hey its better than sticking your tongue on a metal fence post at 30 below or for that matter a lawn mower exhaust
If you overheat/burn the pans they emit fumes.
If you keep birds they tell you not to use them.
If birds are exposed to those fumes they get respiratory infections that can kill them. (I know someone whose pet bird died this way)
I don’t know if they cause cancer or not but knowing what they do to birds I try to limit my use of them . (Canary in the coal mine type logic) I mostly use stainless steel or wrought iron but I do have one teflon coated pan that I am very careful not to overheat when I use it.
I stay away from the cheap ones too as they scratch and peel to easily (I don’t want teflon chips in my families meals )Good stainless last almost forever and well seasoned wrought iron pans clean up almost as easy as the teflon ones if you learn to clean them up right away. (oh and they last forever too )
Most likely, no.
It served Ronald Reagan very well, you know!
CA....
Here’s your first clue - have the personal injury lawyers started running commercials promising to win millions of dollars for you by suing DuPont?
>> What say ye?
Can’t help you. My diet consists only of organic grown black beans and brown rice. I boil them by dropping hot rocks into a folded piece of birch bark pinned up with wood splinters into a crude little pot. The water is high mountain snow melt.
At night I dream of potatoes deep fried in really hot pig lard in a teflon lined aluminum pan. Take me now, Lord!
Yes, if you heat it with a blowtorch and inhale the fumes.
“Some 27.3 percent of investors voted at the company’s annual meeting April 26 in Wilmington, Del., to ask management to report on options to accelerate the company’s phaseout of the use of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The chemical is used in production of Teflon® cookware and grease and stain repellent coatings for carpets, textiles and fast-food wrappers. It lingers in the environment and is linked to potential health effects such as cancer, liver damage and birth defects.”
http://blog.aflcio.org/2006/04/27/union-backed-shareholder-vote-tells-dupont-to-end-toxic-poison/
It always comes off. Into your food and into your gullet. I was a professional cook, have cooked many times for large groups. I cook everything from scratch.
I cook with only cast iron, stainless steel and glass. No teflon other than one or two attempts decades ago. Nope. Supposedly it’s so you don’t eat fat but butter and ghee are good for you.
I worked for Meyer Corporation who manufacture Anolon and Circulon cookware. Basically, today’s non-stick is not your grandmother’s non-stick - at least on the higher quality pans. The chemical that used to be deemed dangerous has been discontinued. Meyer does have their product independently tested and I was told that that testing found none of the dangerous chemical. That chemical cannot withstand temps higher than 300 degrees (if I remember correctly). Meyer’s pans are heated to a temp of 500 degrees and the chemical is burned away, no residual remains.
Now less expensive pans, I can’t vouch for. I own Al-Clad which also has high quality non-stick.
Dupont owns most of the patents on non-stick. They are the top of the line when it comes to the manufacture of non-stick today. I agree with another poster who warned about cheap pans and overheating. Cheap non-stick can give off a toxin if over-heated that can kill pet birds in the home. The top 3 brands when it comes to pan quality and non-stick quality are Al-Clad, Calphalon, and Anolon/Circulon, in that order and priced in that order.
Recently I have made aware of a very insidious chemical that seems to be in everything we consume, is a by product of mechanization, is used in silicon wafer fabrication, etc.
Hell, it’s even found in swimming pools and it is well established to be found in our drinking water.
This chemical is known Dihydrogen Monoxide and for the life of me, I don’t understand why our government and the EPA doesn’t investigate this!
Plus science and the physical laws of the universe cannot swing back and forth tracking the imbecility quotient of the moment.
Waste of time.
The scientific method is well-known except perhaps in East Anglia and a few other twilight zone sites.