Teflon testing

From DUer NVMojo/LBN-I though all you cooks might be interested:

Thousands Sign Up for Teflon Health Test

yet another corporate nightmare! I still remember how excited my mom was to get her first teflon cooking pots and pans. Those things always scared the hell out of me when the surface shredded and people still cooked in them ...

BELPRE, Ohio (AP) -

Ted Johnson worked 35 years for a DuPont Co. chemical plant and believed what company officials said about the safety of the operation. Now, he's not so sure. Johnson and his wife, Barbara, are among more than 43,000 people in the mid-Ohio Valley who have signed up for tests to find out if a chemical used to make Teflon might harm their health.

"At first I thought 'What I don't know, won't hurt me,'" said Barbara Johnson. "We're 69 and I thought we've been doing pretty good."

The Johnsons don't have health problems and Ted Johnson never worked in the Teflon section of the plant.

But on a recent rainy afternoon, the couple yielded to pressure from their four grown children and drove from their home in Cutler to the Ohio River town of Belpre, 17 miles away, to have their blood tested and to answer questions about their health. Getting answers about their long-term health could take years.

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