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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Sent: Friday, August 07, 2009 1:52 PM
Subject: [6pack] Solvent Warning
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