burtlancast
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This is not in any way an attempt of my part to bash Ray; but i think he spoke too soon about Teflon being safe if not scratched.
Here are the facts:
-Even when unscratched, "studies show ultrafine particles start coming off the pan starting at 554 degrees. These are tiny little particles that can embed deeply into the lungs."
The hotter the pan gets, the more chemicals are released. "At 680, toxic gases can begin to come off of heated Teflon," .
- Cooking a few bacon slices is sufficient to rapidly bring the temperature above this 554 degrees treshold in a few minutes, and when inhaled they cause symptoms of the "teflon flu" with "headaches, chills, backache, temperature between 100 and 104 degrees.", lasting over two days.
- There exists 16 peer-reviewed studies detailing 50 years worth of experiments showing that heated Teflon decomposes to 15 types of toxic gases and particles. Many of the studies were done by scientists at DuPont.
- A former top engineer detailed DuPont's cover-up of contaminating human blood for 18 years. DuPont agreed to pay the largest administrative EPA fine in history, $16.5 million for it in 2005.
There's scores of other damaging infos at these links:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3IDF_px4AY[/youtube]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/ ... 9747.shtml
http://www.townsendletter.com/June2006/ ... sk0606.htm
http://www.oldworldaviaries.com/text/styles/teflon.html
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/teflon.htm
Here are the facts:
-Even when unscratched, "studies show ultrafine particles start coming off the pan starting at 554 degrees. These are tiny little particles that can embed deeply into the lungs."
The hotter the pan gets, the more chemicals are released. "At 680, toxic gases can begin to come off of heated Teflon," .
- Cooking a few bacon slices is sufficient to rapidly bring the temperature above this 554 degrees treshold in a few minutes, and when inhaled they cause symptoms of the "teflon flu" with "headaches, chills, backache, temperature between 100 and 104 degrees.", lasting over two days.
- There exists 16 peer-reviewed studies detailing 50 years worth of experiments showing that heated Teflon decomposes to 15 types of toxic gases and particles. Many of the studies were done by scientists at DuPont.
- A former top engineer detailed DuPont's cover-up of contaminating human blood for 18 years. DuPont agreed to pay the largest administrative EPA fine in history, $16.5 million for it in 2005.
There's scores of other damaging infos at these links:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3IDF_px4AY[/youtube]
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/ ... 9747.shtml
http://www.townsendletter.com/June2006/ ... sk0606.htm
http://www.oldworldaviaries.com/text/styles/teflon.html
http://www.apfn.org/apfn/teflon.htm