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Table of Contents
- What is Teflon?
- Why you would want to use PTFE
- Common uses of PTFE
- History and accidental discovery of PTFE
- FDA approval
- How PTFE is made
- Harmful effects on the body
- Bird studies
- Temperatures when different substances are released from PTFE and their effects
- Articles and studies
- Alternative cookware
Links:
General Info – http://www.madehow.com/Volume-7/Teflon.html
The history of how Teflon was made - http://www.whitetrout.net/Chuck/Teflon/teflon.htm
EPA Study - http://www.epa.gov/oppt/pfoa/pubs/pfoarisk.pdf
Study about release of toxic chemicals at heated temperature – http://www.ewg.org/reports/toxicteflon
http://www.ewg.org/files/infographic_thermometer.pdf
Cites study finding PFOA in Blood of Newborns - http://www.denverpost.com/nationworld/ci_5992225
Dangers of PTFE – http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2001/08/01/teflon-part-one.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2003/04/19/teflon-part-two.aspx
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2004/10/23/teflon-part-three.aspx
Washington Post article - http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/25/AR2006012502041.html
