Pyrex Cookware Safer Than Teflon Non-Stick

A group of scientific advisors to the EPA voted unanimously that DuPont's PFOA should be considered a likely carcinogen. PFOA is used to make Teflon non-stick cookware and to coat food packaging. PFOA has been found in 95% of core blood samples tested by the CDC. The EPA sent letters to DuPont and other companies, asking them to commit to a voluntary program by March 1. The program calls for a 95 percent reduction in environmental emissions and product content levels of PFOA, and associated chemicals by 2010. They were also asked to work toward the elimination of PFOA and associated chemicals from emissions and products by 2015. Debra Ray recommended Pyrex glass cookware as the safest, to avoid chemicals leaching into the food at high temperatures.

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