Dangers of Teflon (TM)

[gordon stelter]

Joe,
    Please look at the grotesque deformities caused by
exposure of pregnant women to Teflon production, and
say this again.
     Thump

--- Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com> wrote:

> Hey why be born in the first place, life is the real
> killer.
> Joe Goss RPT
> Mother Goose Tools
> imatunr@srvinet.com
> www.mothergoosetools.com
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@graphic-fusion.com>
> To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org>
> Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:24 PM
> Subject: Re: Dangers of Teflon (TM)
> 
> 
> > Hi Thump,
> >
> > >I just went to a lovely High School honors
> student
> > > science fair, where I saw a terrifying,
> convincing and
> > > excellent display of the birth defects that
> Teflon
> > > (TM) can cause.
> > >     Makes me not want to use Teflon powder on
> > > knuckles any more, regardless of how well it
> > > lubricates them.
> >
> > I wouldn't worry about it.  Teflon poses the
> following two biological
> > hazards, which have been known by the scientific
> community for a very long
> > time:
> >
> > (1)  Workers manufacturing Teflon are exposed to
> PFOA, a reactant used in
> > its synthesis.  Dupont was of course nice enough
> not to warn their workers
> > about the hazards of this chemical.  However, once
> pregnant factory
> workers
> > synthesize the stuff and then go off and give
> birth to the next generation
> > of mutant Dupont factory workers, the end product
> is inert, at least at
> room
> > temperature.  Just don't drink the water anywhere
> near a Dupont plant.
> > (FYI, PFOA does not break down in the environment,
> will be with us
> forever,
> > and is circulating in measurable quantity in the
> blood stream of 90% of
> the
> > folks on this list, probably including me.)
> >
> > (2)  When you line the frying pan with the stuff
> and heat it up enough to
> > scorch it, it gives off toxic fumes that are known
> to kill household birds
> > and are likely not very healthy for unborn babies
> (or anyone else).  Of
> > course the scorched byproducts also wind up in the
> food and have been
> known
> > for a long time to be carcinogenic.  (The pans
> with flaking Teflon are
> > doubly hazardous, since the food is also exposed
> to the aluminum.
> Aluminum
> > also causes birth defects and corrodes nicely when
> exposed to acidic foods
> > such as tomato products.  Hint: Whatever is
> hazardous to birds and babies
> is
> > also hazardous to adults, just less so.)
> >
> > Anyway, short of some of Glenn Gould's warp-speed
> passages, I doubt
> anything
> > is going to scorch the Teflon on a piano's
> knuckles.  Use it in good
> health.
> > If you worry that PFOE and scorched Teflon are
> biohazards (as I do), the
> > solution to the problem is to require that Dupont
> take effective measures
> to
> > protect their workers from PFOA exposure, not
> allow the stuff to be
> released
> > into the environment,  and ban Teflon-lined
> cookware.  If this can't be
> > done, then yes, ban Teflon.  Ban aluminum pans
> too!  And MSG... and the
> > multitudes of other hazardous substances that the
> FDA won't lift a finger
> to
> > control -- because it is not in the financial
> interests of big business.
> In
> > fact, just ban the FDA, because they really get in
> the way of our health
> > much more than they protect it.
> >
> > But again, Teflon is perfectly safe at
> sub-scorching temperatures, at
> least
> > so far as any of us know.  Once it ends up in a
> bag as a fine white
> powder,
> > the damage has already been done elsewhere.
> >
> > Peace,
> > Sarah
> > ... a concerned scientist who has been on the MSG
> and aluminum soap box
> many
> > times before
> >
> >
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