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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: Grainne who wrote (94100)1/20/2005 12:50:05 AM
From: cosmicforce  Read Replies (1) of 108807
 
Well, think of it as tiny, inert stuff that doesn't even raise an immune response. It probably tends to get wedged someplace and just sits there and it's not like mercury or lead which actually cause problems. It really isn't chemically very active because it has no surface charge other than that of the immediate environment. I think DuPont's actions are reprehensible, but understandable in a regulatory environment that allows them to legally use people as guinea pigs. So that's a good question: do I advocate Teflon? Well, I use it and it is convenient. But I feel very, very guilty :-)

If I had a broken hip, I'd want Teflon. Bare stainless leaching nickel into me doesn't appeal to me. Should we coat sofas with it? I have but wouldn't do it again. I think there is WAY too much of it out there. It's like CO2 more or less. It really isn't a problem until you create OCEANS full of it. I think all polymers should be engineered to fall apart into components that are biodegradable. With that said, it is a very difficult engineering problem to do that.

Teflon is very hygienic and the number of people dying of cancer is probably LESS than the number saved from bacterial contamination on surfaces without it. Hard to do that kind of math but as a technologist with an environmental background, I simply feel conflicted and think it should be seriously studied.
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