Teflon Concerns

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Teflon accusation doesn't stick
Michael Fumento
July 21, 2005

....Two law firms filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday (July 19) on
behalf of consumers regarding a chemical used to make Teflon called
perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The lawyers claim PFOA may be hazardous
and want DuPont, Inc, the maker of Teflon, to pay $5 billion. If the
suit pans out, whatever is left after attorneys' fees would go to
replace everyone's cookware, impose a warning label on other Teflon
products, and pay for medical monitoring and more research.
"I don't have to prove that it causes cancer," one of the slick
attorneys told the Associated Press. "I only have to prove that
DuPont lied in a massive attempt to continue selling their product."
But the greasy lawyers' charges against Teflon just don't stick.
Here's the real story. An EPA advisory panel draft report last month
concluded PFOA is a "likely" human carcinogen based on massive-dose
rodent studies. Experts have disagreed with the recommendation, noting
that such studies have historically been extremely poor indicators of
human carcinogens. That's in part because rodents aren't just
little people with little people physiology, but mostly because it
appears it's the high dose given the animals that makes their
DNA-repair systems go haywire and form tumors.
Be that as it may, the new report has nothing to do with the Teflon on
your cookware. PFOA doesn't come as a side order with your eggs and
bacon because the chemical is destroyed in the manufacturing process..

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