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Old 10-15-10 | 08:25 AM
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Originally Posted by safariofthemind
Non stick chemicals are well known to kill birds. Parrot owners avoid it like the plague. It has never been proven to kill humans, but why risk it?

http://www.naturalnews.com/022645.html
Your link concerns the chemical perflurooctanoic Acid (PFOA). It says that this chemical is not found in non-stick coatings. I also doubt that the short-snouted spinner dolphin uses pans with non-stick coating in the preparation of its meals. OTOH, polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) does outgas when heated to high temperatures, and birds are very sensitive to these fumes. OTOH, "a 1959 study (conducted before the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved the material for use in food processing equipment) showed that the toxicity of fumes given off by the coated pan on dry heating was less than that of fumes given off by ordinary cooking oils." http://www.enotalone.com/article/7805.html

However all that may be, the cookware being recommended by Neil Gunton is non-stick by virtue of being hard anodized, not coated with PTFE. Not to worry.
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