By-By Teflon

[SWhite]

Originally Posted by Skyebirdsmom

I have brought this up a number of times on this board and all I get is a bunch of people saying 'blah blah blah blah...' so I gave up. Yes ALL it has to do is be heated, ever so slightly. And if you read the article I submitted it's all about the cancers and other diseases it's causing people who use Teflon or other nonstick. I wish it could just be outlawed and be done with it, but it looks to me like it's like nuclear energy. Everyone bellyaches about the fact we have no way to contain the spent fuel rods for nuclear power, but, what the heck, lets use it anyway. My thought, simple minded as it is is, 'if we can't dispose of it safely, we have NO business using it'. Period.
Linda & Skye~
http://tuberose.com/Teflon.html

Thanks for the link. I guess I missed it when you posted it before.
Thanks for posting again.
your link and some info about the dangers of teflon needs to be posted in F.A.Q. & Resources.
....Shea

[SWhite]

Teflon, a product advertised as making life easy, is also used in a different form to keep stains off carpets and clothing. DuPont calls these products the housewives' best friend. Teflon and the chemicals used in its production have grown into a $2 billion-a-year industry. This includes ammonium perfluorooctanoate, known as C-8, which has been linked to cancer, organ damage and other health effects in tests on laboratory animals. In two to five minutes on a conventional stovetop, cookware coated with Teflon and other non-stick surfaces can exceed temperatures at which the coating breaks apart and emits toxic particles and gases linked to hundreds, perhaps thousands, of pet bird deaths and an unknown number of human illnesses each year, according to tests commissioned by Environmental Working Group (EWG).

In cases of "Teflon toxicosis," as the bird poisonings are called, the lungs of exposed birds hemorrhage and fill with fluid, leading to suffocation.

As a result of the new data showing that non-stick surfaces reach toxic temperatures in a matter of minutes, EWG has petitioned the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to require that cookware and heated appliances bearing non-stick coatings must carry a label warning of the acute hazard the coating poses to pet birds. Additionally, EWG recommends that bird owners completely avoid cookware and heated appliances with non-stick coatings. Alternative cookware includes glass, stainless steel and cast iron, neither of which off-gases persistent pollutants that kill birds.

Link: http://tuberose.com/Teflon.html

[SWhite]

hey, mods
how about posting the above in F.A.Q. & Resources.
Thanks, ...Shea

[N1Hoss]

Originally Posted by The Outlaw

Shea:

I use them and my Farberware every day and have for years. I actually gave away my Circulon. I simply like my Farberware much better.

Does that mean that any Farberware product is safe to use or are the nonstick items still off limits?

[sugarbeth]

Originally Posted by N1Hoss

Does that mean that any Farberware product is safe to use or are the nonstick items still off limits?

All nonstick is off-limits.

It's also commonly found in irons, rice cookers, waffle irons, george foreman grills, etc. Also be aware that it could be in your oven or on an oven liner. Don't use the self-cleaning function on your oven, teflon or no.

[Courtzrocks]

Ok I know teflon is bad but can you use it if your birds are not near it? We have 2 and a half levels in our house, our kitchen is upstairs in the opposite side of the house, the birds are downstairs..both places are well away from any set of stairs, the kitchen has open windows and beetle is in my room so i can close the door and matches is just outside my room near a big sliding door. There are also walls to seperate the kitchen from the stairs and my room blocks matches from the stairs...would it be ok to use it then? I never have the birds out when things are cooking anyway cos i don't want them to land and burn themselves but if they are in their cages would that possibly be ok to use teflon? I'm not a big teflon wizz so I don't know.

[sugarbeth]

It's okay if you're careful, the problem is when you leave a pot and forget about it on the stove - the fumes will kill all the birds in your house no matter where they are. Just get rid of it and you'll never have to worry. :)

[Courtzrocks]

HAHA pots are never left unsupervised LOL! When I was a bit younger I almost burnt the house down cos i left a pan on the stove for about 6 hours on high and forgot about it...paranoid about leaving the kitchen with things on the stove now...can't even go to get the phone lol, i turn it all off go get the phone and turn it on again...yeah...I'm weird.

[meandem]

A friend just lent me that book to read. It was really interesting. I didn't know about the teflon thing either, but I'm not a big lover of it anyway. I agree with Courtzrocks, I never like to have the birds out when I'm cooking - in case of burns and mishaps. They are all too inquisitive in this house and they all like to know whats doing at every minute of every day.

[Courtzrocks]

Yeah, we had a lutino tiel who used to sneak into things...so many times she would have been killed if we hadnt noticed she was missing...someone left the fridge open one day for a minute and she climbed in there and we almost closed the door with her in there!!