{"id":771,"date":"2006-11-17T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-17T11:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/chatteringmind\/2006\/11\/whats-your-stand-on-teflon.html"},"modified":"2006-11-17T11:40:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-17T11:40:00","slug":"whats-your-stand-on-teflon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/11\/whats-your-stand-on-teflon.html","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Your Stand on Teflon?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/teflon.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right;margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 200px\" src=\"https:\/\/media.beliefnet.com\/imgs\/tout\/story\/teflon.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>The folks at DuPont have regrouped and are now fighting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/8408729\/\" target=\"_new\">allegations from the EPA<\/a> that their Teflon coating on non-stick cookware includes a chemical that is a &#8220;likely carcinogen.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>The gasses Teflon produces at high heat are certainly bad for pet birds; DuPont addresses the canary-in-a-coal-mine problem <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teflon.com\/NASApp\/Teflon\/TeflonPageServlet?pageId=\/consumer\/na\/eng\/housewares\/keyword\/teflon_keyword_birds.html\" target=\"_new\">here<\/a>. Lately, I&#8217;ve been noticing an expensive ad campaign in women&#8217;s magazines featuring <a href=\"http:\/\/www.convertiblecookware.com\/testimonials.html\" target=\"_new\">Carlonda R. Reilly<\/a>, Dupont&#8217;s manager of global technology saying, &#8220;As a scientist, I make Teflon. As a mother, I use it.&#8221;   <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve gotten rid of all my Teflon and I haven&#8217;t looked back, though I <em>do <\/em>find myself working overtime to remove more encrusted omelette from my iron skillets (and eesh, I feel quilty that my old pans are festering in some landfill). <\/p>\n<p>Where do you stand on the Teflon question?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The folks at DuPont have regrouped and are now fighting allegations from the EPA that their Teflon coating on non-stick cookware includes a chemical that is a &#8220;likely carcinogen.&#8221; The gasses Teflon produces at high heat are certainly bad for pet birds; DuPont addresses the canary-in-a-coal-mine problem here. Lately, I&#8217;ve been noticing an expensive ad&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-771","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>What&#039;s Your Stand on Teflon? - Chattering Mind<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/chatteringmind\/2006\/11\/whats-your-stand-on-teflon.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"What&#039;s Your Stand on Teflon? - Chattering Mind\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The folks at DuPont have regrouped and are now fighting allegations from the EPA that their Teflon coating on non-stick cookware includes a chemical that is a &#8220;likely carcinogen.&#8221; The gasses Teflon produces at high heat are certainly bad for pet birds; DuPont addresses the canary-in-a-coal-mine problem here. 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