The cookware industry has long claimed that not cooking in nonstick pans is a major source of exposure to the chemical perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). However, the September issue of the Archives in 2010 reports of child and adolescent medicine possible health risks, including high cholesterol, compared to children from exposure to that chemical. This chemical is naturally non-stick cookware coatings.
After boiling Manufacturing Association, the PFOAto remain employed in the preparation of the coating does not reach into the coating from the time the product to the consumer. And science seems to back up this claim, because PFOA is found in the blood of people around the world, including places where there is no Teflon pans.
How exposure to PFOA occurs really remains unknown. Experts speculate on sources of exposure could be drinking water, food packaging, microwave popcorn, and possibly even the air we breathe are. New research suggeststhat almost all of us a certain amount of PFOA in their blood.
In the study, blood samples taken from more than 12,000 children and adolescents enrolled in the C8 Health Project were analyzed. The C8 Health Project is a study of municipalities in the Mid-Ohio River Valley, the high levels of PFOA are exposed through contaminated drinking water. The research was performed on a class action settlement against chemical giant DuPont. DuPont has operated the facility in connection with theContamination of the water.
The researchers analyzed the blood levels of two chemicals that perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), which is mostly used in nonstick cookware. PFOA concentrations were reported on average about 7 times higher than in a nationally representative survey.
Children who were at the highest level of these chemicals in their blood also had unusual high total cholesterol and LDL (bad cholesterol) to researcher Stephen J.Frisbee, MSc, from the West Virginia University School of Medicine.
Children and young people with the highest blood levels of PFOA had a 20% increased risk of higher total cholesterol, increased 40% risk of higher LDL cholesterol than those with the lowest levels of the chemical. The subjects with the highest levels of PFOS were 60% more often than those with the lowest level of high total and LDL cholesterol have.
Of course, the research is not solid evidence that casts exposed to PFOACholesterol, but the results do not warrant additional study, as these potentially harmful chemicals are all around us.
Because the effects of PFOA are not known, the Environmental Protection Agency, DuPont and other companies asked to stop using the chemical in 2015. DuPont agreed to the ban and has promised to phase out the chemicals before the deadline.
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