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Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer (futurism.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/nottheonion

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[–] [email protected] 103 points 4 weeks ago (62 children)

Keep in mind that nonstick cookware is still very safe when handled correctly. The problem lies in the manufacturing of these needed chemicals. When these chemicals get into the environment, because of improper safety management, it will stay there for hundreds of years, taking it's toll on flora and fauna.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 weeks ago (19 children)

very safe when handled correctly

Too many people are not educated about that.

The problem lies in the manufacturing of these needed chemicals. When these chemicals get into the environment, because of improper safety managemen

Which is one of the reasons for that law, see:

Dubbed "Amara's Law" after 20-year-old cancer victim Amara Strande, who in 2023 succumbed to a rare type of liver cancer linked to PFAS after growing up near a Minnesota-based 3M plant that dumped them into the local water supply, the new regulation bans the chemicals and any items made with them from being sold within the state.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 4 weeks ago (18 children)

Too many people are not educated about that.

I've never met the sort of idiots who put an empty pan on some turbo heat or use metal with nonstick, but I know they're out there.

[–] _bac 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I have never seen a teflon pan that didnt have scratches after a few years.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have a few. From IKEA. But most don't last very long yeah

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