Non-stick coatings

Teflon is used everywhere. Odds are it’s touching you right now, if you are near any carpet coverd with Stainmaster, are wearing any Gore-Tex, or are eating from something cooked in Teflon or Sliverstone. It’s been known for a long time that if you heat an empty Teflon coated pan too hot, the outgassing would kill a canary. Now we hear about something called the “Teflon flu” which is flu-like symptoms resulting from overheated pans, an overheating that can occur under normal cooking conditions such as frying fatty meat.

Can Non-Stick Make You Sick?
EPA Studying Whether Teflon Poses Health Risks

By Brian Ross, Rhonda Schwartz and Maddy Sauer


Nov. 14 — For Bucky Bailey's parents, the 22-year-old's wedding day in August of this year was one they feared might never come, given how their son started life. Bucky was born in January of 1981 with only one nostril and a deformed right eye.



"The doctors told us not to get attached to him because he probably wouldn't make it through the night," Sue Bailey, Bucky's mother, told 20/20. "They didn't know what to say. … I mean, they had never seen a baby like this before. … I cried so many tears I couldn't cry another tear."

Today, two decades later, scarred from more than 30 surgeries, Bucky is coming forward and telling 20/20 he wants to know who or what is responsible for a life that has not been easy.

"I've never, ever felt normal. You can't feel normal when you walk outside and every single person looks at you. And it's not that look of 'he's famous' or 'he's rich,' " Bucky said. "It's that look of 'he's different.' You can see it in their eyes."


Chemicals Widely Detected in Blood

The Bailey family and others lay the blame at the place where Sue worked when she became pregnant with Bucky — the huge DuPont plant in Parkersburg, W.Va., where workers mix the chemicals for Teflon, the famed non-stick substance used on pots and pans.

Teflon, a product advertised as making life easy, is also used in a different form to keep stains off carpets and clothing. DuPont calls these products the housewives' best friend.

Teflon and the chemicals used in its production have grown into a $2 billion-a-year industry. This includes ammonium perfluorooctanoate, known as C-8, which has been linked to cancer, organ damage and other health effects in tests on laboratory animals.

http://www.patandkat.com/sleep/2003/11/17/teflon_poison_in_everyones_blood.html
http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/2020/Living/Teflon_investigation_031114-1....

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