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They might even make it stick
Jan. 25th, 2006 19:17FDA moving to ban chemical used to make Teflon
From what I gather from three different articles on ABC news, the chemical is called zonyl. It breaks down in the body into ammonium perfluorooctanoate, known as C-8 or PFOA, which causes cancer and other organ damage in lab animals. It's found in everyone's blood now.
Other sources of PFOA
It's used in the coatings on pans, but also in candy wrappers, microwave popcorn bags, and fast food wrappings, to keep the oil from soaking through the paper. And it gets ingested with the food, to bioaccumulate in the body.
DuPont is being sued, on allegations that they covered up the fact that the chemical is ingested in far higher amounts than they predicted and stays in the body, which they hadn't expected.
From what I gather from three different articles on ABC news, the chemical is called zonyl. It breaks down in the body into ammonium perfluorooctanoate, known as C-8 or PFOA, which causes cancer and other organ damage in lab animals. It's found in everyone's blood now.
Other sources of PFOA
It's used in the coatings on pans, but also in candy wrappers, microwave popcorn bags, and fast food wrappings, to keep the oil from soaking through the paper. And it gets ingested with the food, to bioaccumulate in the body.
DuPont is being sued, on allegations that they covered up the fact that the chemical is ingested in far higher amounts than they predicted and stays in the body, which they hadn't expected.
