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Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer (futurism.com)

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[-] pistonfish@feddit.org 110 points 1 month ago

Keep in mind that nonstick cookware is still very safe when handled correctly. The problem lies in the manufacturing of these needed chemicals. When these chemicals get into the environment, because of improper safety management, it will stay there for hundreds of years, taking it's toll on flora and fauna.

[-] Zacryon@feddit.org 54 points 1 month ago

very safe when handled correctly

Too many people are not educated about that.

The problem lies in the manufacturing of these needed chemicals. When these chemicals get into the environment, because of improper safety managemen

Which is one of the reasons for that law, see:

Dubbed "Amara's Law" after 20-year-old cancer victim Amara Strande, who in 2023 succumbed to a rare type of liver cancer linked to PFAS after growing up near a Minnesota-based 3M plant that dumped them into the local water supply, the new regulation bans the chemicals and any items made with them from being sold within the state.

[-] Fenrisulfir@lemmy.ca 29 points 1 month ago

And how do you dispose of it correctly? Cookware shouldn’t need to come with an MSDS sheet

[-] Zementid@feddit.nl 9 points 1 month ago

Wait, it's not the material on the Pans?

[-] megopie 2 points 1 month ago

It is the material on the pans, but the only case where the companies making the stuff were successfully sued was when they were caught for dumping intermediates of the chemical in to a tributary of Ohio river.

It’s hard to pin down how impactful the coatings on the pans are because of how many other sources of these kinds of fluorocarbons are in house hold items, and in the environment due to large companies disposing of them recklessly. We know for a fact that basically everyone has some level of these compounds in them due to their ubiquity.

The pans are just one potential source and a particularly notable one because they’re in contact with food.

[-] nialv7@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Does Teflon even break down into PFAS at all? From what I read I think it doesn't.

[-] legopika 2 points 1 month ago

Teflon is a pfas

PTFE and chemicals used in its production are some of the best-known and widely applied PFAS

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