DuPont's toxic Teflon chemical is in humans, our environment, and it will *never* go away

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A man-made compound that didn’t exist a century ago, C8 is in the blood of 99.7 percent of Americans, according to a 2007 analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control, as well as in newborn human babies, breast milk, and umbilical cord blood. A growing group of scientists have been tracking the chemical’s spread through the environment, documenting its presence in a wide range of wildlife, including Loggerhead sea turtles, bottlenose dolphins, harbor seals, polar bears, caribou, walruses, bald eagles, lions, tigers, and arctic birds. Although DuPont no longer uses C8, fully removing the chemical from all the bodies of water and bloodstreams it pollutes is now impossible. And, because it is so chemically stable — in fact, as far as scientists can determine, it never breaks down — C8 is expected to remain on the planet well after humans are gone from it.

Speechless really!! https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/

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1. Funny, not ha ha,

when Teflon became popular I was pretty young but my very first thought was that it couldn't be healthy to put that on pots and pans and then heat them to burning temps. It seemed impossible that it wouldn't leach into the food.