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Dave Bowman

(4,476 posts) Mon Jan 13, 2025, 03:06 AM Jan 13

Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer [View all]

"the Cookware Sustainability Alliance advocacy group is suing Katrina Kessler, the head of the state's pollution control agency, over a newly-enacted law that will ban the use of cancer-causing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), which are used to make non-stick pans.

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."

https://futurism.com/neoscope/nonstick-cookware-pfas-law

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Nonstick Cookware Industry Furious at Suggestion They Should Stop Causing Cancer [View all] Dave Bowman Jan 13 OP

And in an extremely unfortunate coincidence canetoad Jan 13 #1

Don't own one of them malaise Jan 13 #6

Ceramic Coated ProfessorGAC Jan 13 #7

Has anyone said anything about this slightlv Jan 13 #2

Good idea in principle and I think they'd be as inert as stainless steel Bernardo de La Paz Jan 13 #4

supposedly... I've heard they can even go into the oven... slightlv Jan 13 #13

I guess not being a gourmet cook helps as I use only my old stainless steel and my Mom's single hlthe2b Jan 13 #5

No PFAS At All ProfessorGAC Jan 13 #8

Thanks... right now my head is discombobluated slightlv Jan 13 #15

Look Into Ceramic ProfessorGAC Jan 13 #18

We bought a set of ceramic-coated frying pans recently, Emrys Jan 13 #9

Thank you, Emrys! Lots of good info for me here... slightlv Jan 13 #16

I switched to stainless steel tenderfoot Jan 13 #11

I like quality stainless steel inside Bernardo de La Paz Jan 13 #3

I use bar keeper's friend and those green scrubby pads on my stainless steel. tenderfoot Jan 13 #12

I'm a cast iron guy. harumph Jan 13 #10

I'm with you! I LOVE my cast iron pans. slightlv Jan 13 #17

most people I know have switched over to ceramic coated cookware. WarGamer Jan 13 #14