Has anyone seen this? It's really good & surprised me a quite a bit. For decades, DuPont concealed all of the info that the chemicals comprising Teflon would cause harm to humans. They dumped tons of waste in drinking water, conspired with the EPA to claim all of this was safe. And the kicker - what shocked me the most... 99% of the entire human population - has teflon-related chemicals in their blood. The only blood they could find without it was some blood in cold storage from soldiers who went to war before teflon was invented. The chemical can't disintegrate or be flushed out of the body. It basically lasts forever. It's also in everything from Gortex jackets to stain-resistant coatings on fabric (though 3M and DuPont have changed it in the last 10 years after thousands of lawsuits, the damage is done & the new stuff isn't that much better). I knew there was always "controversy" over teflon but I had no idea it was at this level.
i read a small nj towns water is severely polluted with those scotch guard chems
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | February 8, 2019 12:30 AM |
If teflon poisons pet birds, it's obviously bad for humans.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | February 8, 2019 12:32 AM |
I had no idea Scotch Guard was related to Teflon, but they are based on the same highly-toxic compound (PFOA / PFOS / C8). Furniture stores that push the stupid fucking coating for $300 really should answer for that shit too. I'm glad the furniture manufacturers & fabric manufacturers have decided to void the warranties of upholstery that has been treated by any of this shit in the last few years or so. So, there are some stores that won't treat anything (and then they push Guardsman on you instead)
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | February 8, 2019 12:33 AM |
R2 - the guy in the doc actually told a story of when they were releasing some kind of Teflon-related gas into the atmosphere and he heard "extremely loud and heavy hail" falling on to the roof...it was hundreds of birds - instantly dying.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | February 8, 2019 12:34 AM |
"Ain't nothing wrong with a little bit of Teflon in your blood."
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | February 8, 2019 12:36 AM |
Wow, R4. have a parrot so no Teflon in my house at all. Any avian vet knows how dangerous it is for birds.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | February 8, 2019 12:38 AM |
I have birds in the house as well, so I don’t have any non-stick cookware. I guess I am also doing myself a favor.
R3, it is still a challenge to find upholstered furniture that has not been treated. Most is made in China and has been treated with formaldehyde. The off-gassing can take a long time. It’s why people complain a out chemical smells with new furniture, and you have to spend considerably more NOT to have new furniture untreated. Crazy.
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | February 8, 2019 12:44 AM |
When I had a pet bird I had a heck of a time getting an iron & ironing board that didn’t have non-stick coating. That was in the 1980s/early 90s. Probably don’t exist anymore.
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | February 8, 2019 12:54 AM |
In May 2009, PFOS was determined to be a persistent organic pollutant (POP) by the Stockholm Convention.[10] In 2018, 3M agreed to pay the state of Minnesota $850 million to settle a $5 billion lawsuit over drinking water contaminated by PFOA and other fluorosurfactants
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | February 8, 2019 12:57 AM |
The dyes in the fabrics are full of a lot of chemicals. (There's actually another Netlifx documentary about fast fashion that talks about how bad the dyes are in clothing).
I bought a sofa that I (stupidly thought) I wanted coated with the stain-resistant stuff but they said it would void the fabric warranty and wouldn't do it so it was not coated but it did still smell like something at first, but only a couple weeks. I think it was just the fabric dye.
I don't think you can get carpet without stainmaster anymore - but I am not sure if it's the same. I can't imagine how it would be different. The whole point of these compounds is that they're the only things that can repel other kinds of molecules. Sadly, it was a breakthrough in chemistry.... just one with a huge downside.
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | February 8, 2019 1:00 AM |
N.J. sets stringent standard on cancer-causing chemical PFOA in drinking water
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | February 8, 2019 1:28 AM |