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Jerry Hirsch, LA Times article Safety Concerns May Stick to Teflon, 02/14/2006
Erin showed me a pot that we had where the non-stick stuff was coming off of it. So I googled a bit to find out about it. This was one of the articles I found, a chemical component in the non stick coating (PFOA) that they put for non-stick is now in all of our bodies and is one of those things that never leaves. The chemical is also in lots of other stuff, like carpet, microwave popcorn bags, etc…
There does not seem to be any proof of it being toxic in the doses we are exposed to, however when I saw the above fact it made me think if something like the unexplainable increase in autism that has been going on comes from something like this chemical that transfers to the fetus.
