How Teflon Poisoned the World
This is the story of how Polytetrafluoroethylene, brand name Teflon, has poisoned almost the entire world with Perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOA, which is cancer-causing
The amount of PFOA in the average person isn’t necessarily harmful, but nevertheless PFOA can be found in dolphins in Florida, the rain in Tibet, household dust, and food and water.
It’s basically everywhere. Yay.
Sources:
EPA Advisory Landing Page https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/drinking-wat…
EPA proposes regulation https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/14/…
Federal Register EPA Plan summary https://www.federalregister.gov/docum…
NC EPA GENX https://www.wral.com/story/epa-sets-s…
EPA GenX Toxicity Report https://www.epa.gov/system/files/docu…
PFAS EPA Roadmap https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-strateg…
PFOA In rain worldwide https://cen.acs.org/environment/persi…
PFOA PFOS in China https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19775…
EWG- PFC https://www.ewg.org/research/pfcs-glo…
CDC PFOA Fact Sheet https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/PFO…
American Cancer Society – PFOA https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-pr…
3M Taves 1975 Document https://www.documentcloud.org/documen…
1977 Fluoride In Blood Timeline https://www.documentcloud.org/documen…
3M Knew About Dangers – The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3…
Teflon’s Toxic Legacy – EcoWatch https://www.ecowatch.com/teflons-toxi…
C8 Suspected In Birth Defects – Delaware Online https://www.delawareonline.com/story/…
Roanoke River Contamination https://roanoke.com/news/local/source…
NCBI – Forever Chemicals in Blood Stats https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti…
Agency for Toxic Substances And Disease Registry – PFAS Study https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health…
Rob Bilott – NYT Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/ma…
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“PFOA in the average person isn’t necessarily harmful, but …“ The danger is often that question of “how much”? Too much Vitamin A is lethal, and I have my doubts about some of the above information sources and their good intentions. Nitrates in cured meats were the last culprits, and devoted sausage miscreants are still here. As to carcinogens – they kill you sometimes and sometimes not. Who gets sick and who doesn’t is still a mystery even with the right dose; but is the lifeblood of institutional health advice. Are you listening Rachel Carson?
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