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http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/05/15/Consumers/teflonbirds_030515
Teflon bad for birds: environmental group
Last Updated Thu, 15 May 2003 16:21:07
WASHINGTON - An environmental group wants cookware made with Teflon
and other non-stick surfaces, to be labelled with a warning that it
can kill birds.
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) says cookware coated with
Teflon and other non-stick surfaces can exceed temperatures at which
the coating breaks apart in two to five minutes. The group says the
coating emits fumes linked to hundreds of pet bird deaths and an
unknown number of human illnesses each year.
The U.S.-based environmental group has filed a petition with the
Consumer Product Safety Commission asking for the warning labels.
FROM Apr. 1, 2003: Non-stick chemical could be health hazard:
environmental group
Veterinary experts say birds are especially susceptible to fumes
because they have very sensitive respiratory systems.
DuPont, which makes Teflon, has acknowledged that pans left on a hot
burner emit gases that can kill birds. But at the same time the
company says it poses no greater risk than fumes from overheated
cooking fats such as oil and butter.
"In cases where the non-stick coating is grossly overheated (any food
would have long been burned to an inedible state at this point),
fumes may produce temporary flu-like symptoms," reads DuPont's Web
site.
DuPont says temperatures have to exceed 260 C, well above the
temperatures needed for frying or baking.
EWG says these pans reach 260 C quickly.
According to EWG's study, Canaries in the kitchen, a generic non-
stick pan left on a conventional stovetop burner can reach 391 C in
three minutes and 20 seconds. A Teflon pan can reach 382 C in five
minutes.
Meanwhile, a former chairman of the Consumer Products Safety
Commission says there is nothing new in the EWG's study.
"The only thing truly toxic in this story is EWG's overheated
rhetoric which is designed to generate headlines and create public
anxiety," Terrence Scanlon said in a statement.
"The dangers to small birds and humans from the extreme overheating
of Teflon-coated pans has been well known for many years and
incidents are very rare." Scanlon added that people and pets face
greater threats in the home than from overheated Teflon pans.
This is not the first time environmental and consumer groups have
called DuPont's products into question.
Recently the Environmental Protection Agency stepped up its
investigation into a chemical used to make Teflon, known as C-8,
after concluding it caused cancers in laboratory animals.
FROM Apr. 17, 2003: Chemical used in Teflon linked to birth defects:
EPA
DuPont is also defending a class-action suit filed on behalf of
mostly West Virginia and Ohio residents who say their drinking water
was contaminated with C-8 as a result of Teflon production.
Written by CBC News Online staff
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