[6pack] Solvent Warning

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Alex:

 Here is another source of deadly phosgene gas, so when you borrow one of 
your wife's new teflon pans to test a thermostat, or clean some car parts, 
be careful not to over heat the teflon pan.:
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 new tests conducted by a university food safety professor, a generic 
non-stick frying pan preheated on a conventional, electric stovetop burner 
reached 7360F in three minutes and 20 seconds, with temperatures still 
rising when the tests were terminated. A Teflon pan reached 7210F in just 
five minutes under the same test conditions (See Figure 1), as measured by a 
commercially available infrared thermometer. DuPont studies show that the 
Teflon offgases toxic particulates at 4460F. At 6800F Teflon pans release at 
least six toxic gases, including two carcinogens, two global pollutants, and 
MFA, a chemical lethal to humans at low doses. At temperatures that DuPont 
scientists claim are reached on stovetop drip pans (10000F), non-stick 
coatings break down to a chemical warfare agent known as PFIB, and a 
chemical analog of the WWII nerve gas phosgene.



Ed Bratt

Regina, Saskatchewan

1976 TR6

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