Joe, Please look at the grotesque deformities caused by exposure of pregnant women to Teflon production, and say this again. Thump --- Joe And Penny Goss <imatunr@srvinet.com> wrote: > Hey why be born in the first place, life is the real > killer. > Joe Goss RPT > Mother Goose Tools > imatunr@srvinet.com > www.mothergoosetools.com > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sarah Fox" <sarah@graphic-fusion.com> > To: "Pianotech" <pianotech@ptg.org> > Sent: Sunday, February 27, 2005 9:24 PM > Subject: Re: Dangers of Teflon (TM) > > > > Hi Thump, > > > > >I just went to a lovely High School honors > student > > > science fair, where I saw a terrifying, > convincing and > > > excellent display of the birth defects that > Teflon > > > (TM) can cause. > > > Makes me not want to use Teflon powder on > > > knuckles any more, regardless of how well it > > > lubricates them. > > > > I wouldn't worry about it. Teflon poses the > following two biological > > hazards, which have been known by the scientific > community for a very long > > time: > > > > (1) Workers manufacturing Teflon are exposed to > PFOA, a reactant used in > > its synthesis. Dupont was of course nice enough > not to warn their workers > > about the hazards of this chemical. However, once > pregnant factory > workers > > synthesize the stuff and then go off and give > birth to the next generation > > of mutant Dupont factory workers, the end product > is inert, at least at > room > > temperature. Just don't drink the water anywhere > near a Dupont plant. > > (FYI, PFOA does not break down in the environment, > will be with us > forever, > > and is circulating in measurable quantity in the > blood stream of 90% of > the > > folks on this list, probably including me.) > > > > (2) When you line the frying pan with the stuff > and heat it up enough to > > scorch it, it gives off toxic fumes that are known > to kill household birds > > and are likely not very healthy for unborn babies > (or anyone else). Of > > course the scorched byproducts also wind up in the > food and have been > known > > for a long time to be carcinogenic. (The pans > with flaking Teflon are > > doubly hazardous, since the food is also exposed > to the aluminum. > Aluminum > > also causes birth defects and corrodes nicely when > exposed to acidic foods > > such as tomato products. Hint: Whatever is > hazardous to birds and babies > is > > also hazardous to adults, just less so.) > > > > Anyway, short of some of Glenn Gould's warp-speed > passages, I doubt > anything > > is going to scorch the Teflon on a piano's > knuckles. Use it in good > health. > > If you worry that PFOE and scorched Teflon are > biohazards (as I do), the > > solution to the problem is to require that Dupont > take effective measures > to > > protect their workers from PFOA exposure, not > allow the stuff to be > released > > into the environment, and ban Teflon-lined > cookware. If this can't be > > done, then yes, ban Teflon. Ban aluminum pans > too! And MSG... and the > > multitudes of other hazardous substances that the > FDA won't lift a finger > to > > control -- because it is not in the financial > interests of big business. > In > > fact, just ban the FDA, because they really get in > the way of our health > > much more than they protect it. > > > > But again, Teflon is perfectly safe at > sub-scorching temperatures, at > least > > so far as any of us know. Once it ends up in a > bag as a fine white > powder, > > the damage has already been done elsewhere. > > > > Peace, > > Sarah > > ... a concerned scientist who has been on the MSG > and aluminum soap box > many > > times before > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > pianotech list info: > https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > > _______________________________________________ > pianotech list info: > https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Take Yahoo! Mail with you! Get it on your mobile phone. http://mobile.yahoo.com/maildemo
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