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How many people had concentration that high, and how did it get that high?
I would hope it wasn't just from using Teflon pans every day.
But with a sample size of 30k, they would be unlikely to get people who might regularly come into contact with it in a manufacturing setting.
I prefer cast iron anyway.
A big problem with teflon pans is that many people don't realize that there's a correct way to use them, and many incorrect ways.
Aside from the obvious stuff like using metal utensils, a huge mistake a lot of people make with teflon pans is that they heat the pan way hotter than it needs to be. Not only does this typically ruin whatever you're trying to cook, but if you heat up an empty teflon pan past a certain temperature, it will begin to release harmful vapors. So if you put the burner on high and let your pan get hot while you spend 10 minutes preparing other things, you're just blasting tons of vapors into your kitchen.
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that low-grade teflon poisoning is way more common than we realize.
The gas products aren't PTFE though. So it's unlikely that PTFE entered their blood via this route.
Oh, good point, I hadn't considered that. That does raise some questions then about how else they would've gotten it into their system. Would've been great if the snippet this image is from pointed to the study in question.
Yeah sadly it’s a picture from a magazine. No other info available
Perhaps they all eat Plumber's Tape (aka Thread Seal Tape)?
Recent studies have shown that teflon pans off gas without even being heated, and at low temperatures.