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DuPont in deep water over Teflon's hidden danger to humans and the environment
Taipei Times ^
| Aug 8, 2004
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Posted on 08/12/2004 4:52:41 PM PDT by upchuck
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Pretty slick if you ask me :)
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posted on
08/12/2004 4:52:41 PM PDT
by
upchuck
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To: upchuck
Pass the tinfoil. The lawyers have a new "mother lode" to exploit.
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posted on
08/12/2004 4:58:54 PM PDT
by
Mister Baredog
((Part of the Reagan legacy is to re-elect G.W. Bush))
To: upchuck
This should give John Edwards something to do in December.
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:01:22 PM PDT
by
Pete'sWife
(Dirt is for racing... asphalt is for getting there.)
To: upchuck
BS......any fool reading the MSDS sheet can see that the stuff is relatively inert and the only possible threat is in it's lack of biodigradability.
Consider too all the uses in medicine where it hasn't affected Jack.
To: upchuck
To: Yehuda
Excellent article, designed to generate hysteria, along with wealth for the trial lawyers.
If the chemical is that bad, and as pervasive in the ground water as the article states, there should be some kind of health risks that are easily mapped. 20 years of exposure is more than long enough to establish some kind of health risk.
Instead, the only thing the article mentions is a couple of memos, along with a brief description of some birth defects. The article also talks about "links to health risks in animals." Yeah, and red dye #2 caused cancer in lab rats, providing the exposure was 10,000 time what a person would receive in a lifetime.
The article is long on "sky is falling hysteria" and remarkably short on factual evidence.
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:04:55 PM PDT
by
stylin_geek
(Koffi: 0, G.W. Bush: (I lost count))
To: upchuck
Pfffttt!. I worry more about flouride in the water supply. Luckily for me, I have a well, and I use Teflon piping.
FMCDH(BITS)
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:08:47 PM PDT
by
nothingnew
(KERRY: "If at first you don't deceive, lie, lie again!")
To: Larry Lucido
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:11:03 PM PDT
by
JOE6PAK
(12/25/68 = LBJ-NOT-RN!)
To: nothingnew
I worry more about flouride in the water supply. 
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:11:46 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Larry Lucido
The charge won't stick. LOL!
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:12:06 PM PDT
by
Ichneumon
("...she might as well have been a space alien." - Bill Clinton, on Hillary, "My Life", p. 182)
To: Mister Baredog
Pass the tinfoil. The lawyers have a new "mother lode" to exploit.Yep, they've pretty much stripped the asbestos gravy train down to the frame, so it's time to move on...
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:15:08 PM PDT
by
CFC__VRWC
( John F'in Kerry - the gift that keeps on giving to the Bush campaign.)
To: upchuck
If you have a pet bird, and cook with a new teflon pan, your bird may drop dead. I know this is true. My friend's annoying bird bought it because of this.
I know there's alot of enviro hysteria, but if using the product as intended can cause a bird to drop dead, it can be entirely healthy.
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:15:18 PM PDT
by
dead
(I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
To: upchuck
. . .and we cannot forget 'slick Willie' either.
Seems pretty healthy - and then there is Hillary; surely over exposed by now. . .
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:19:14 PM PDT
by
cricket
(Don't Lose Your Head. . .Vote Republican)
To: upchuck
evidence suggests If that phrase doesn't set off an alarm bell, a reasonably careful reading of the article should.
But then again, it's the New York Times. Waddya want, honesty?
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:20:51 PM PDT
by
sionnsar
(Iran Azadi ||| Resource for Traditional Anglicans: trad-anglican.faithweb.com)
To: dead
I know there's alot of enviro hysteria, but if using the product as intended can cause a bird to drop dead, it can be entirely healthy.You beat me to the punch.
To: Mister Baredog
Maybe not. When we got our parrot 20 odd years ago, the store owner told me to make sure I didn't use teflon coated cookware around him. The toxins from "burning" the teflon might make him sick or worse. I just assumed that since it was bad for the bird, it couldn't be good for my family either and never used another teflon pan.
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posted on
08/12/2004 5:21:57 PM PDT
by
freeangel
(freeangel)
To: dead
If you have a pet bird, and cook with a new teflon pan, your bird may drop dead. I know this is true. My friend's annoying bird bought it because of this.Oops. I forgot to mention that it doesn't take a cooking pan, either. Newer irons are also coated with teflon and can also kill pet birds.
To: upchuck
I have used teflon products for years now, and it has never dained my bramage. I think this story is inaccurate.
To: upchuck
PFOA is formed in nature when Alar and DDT mate.
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