Medicine: The chemical inertness of Teflon makes it apt for making artificial body parts. Armor-piercing bullets: Teflon is used to coat specific types of hardened armor-piercing bullets. This coating ...
Nonstick cookware with its Teflon coating has had a bad reputation since the early 2000s, cancer being one of its many alleged evils. And yet, not only is a nonstick pan found in almost every ...
This was used in the manufacturing of Teflon coatings in the early 2000s and earlier, and was fully phased out by 2013. This chemical can cause something called “polymer fume fever” if you ...
In this series, Sharon Lerner exposes DuPont’s multi-decade cover-up of the severe harms to health associated with a chemical known as PFOA, or C8, and associated compounds such as PFOS and GenX.