Comments on: EPA Board Finds Teflon Exposure A Greater Cancer Risk http://www.pacifichealth.info/2005/07/04/general/epa-board-finds-teflon-exposure-a-greater-cancer-risk/ Health Information for the rest of us. Mon, 06 Sep 2010 19:08:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Wyeth_Swittenburg http://www.pacifichealth.info/2005/07/04/general/epa-board-finds-teflon-exposure-a-greater-cancer-risk/comment-page-1/#comment-3625 Wyeth_Swittenburg Thu, 21 Jul 2005 16:56:28 +0000 http://pacifichealth.info/healthblog/?p=215#comment-3625 Read this - Teflon accusation doesn't stick Michael Fumento July 21, 2005 Two law firms filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday (July 19) on behalf of consumers regarding a chemical used to make Teflon called perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The lawyers claim PFOA may be hazardous and want DuPont, Inc, the maker of Teflon, to pay $5 billion. If the suit pans out, whatever is left after attorneys’ fees would go to replace everyone’s cookware, impose a warning label on other Teflon products, and pay for medical monitoring and more research. "I don't have to prove that it causes cancer,” one of the slick attorneys told the Associated Press. “I only have to prove that DuPont lied in a massive attempt to continue selling their product." But the greasy lawyers’ charges against Teflon just don’t stick. For the rest go to: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Fumento20050721.shtml Read this –

Teflon accusation doesn’t stick
Michael Fumento
July 21, 2005

Two law firms filed a class action lawsuit Tuesday (July 19) on behalf of consumers regarding a chemical used to make Teflon called perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA). The lawyers claim PFOA may be hazardous and want DuPont, Inc, the maker of Teflon, to pay $5 billion. If the suit pans out, whatever is left after attorneys’ fees would go to replace everyone’s cookware, impose a warning label on other Teflon products, and pay for medical monitoring and more research.
“I don’t have to prove that it causes cancer,” one of the slick attorneys told the Associated Press. “I only have to prove that DuPont lied in a massive attempt to continue selling their product.”
But the greasy lawyers’ charges against Teflon just don’t stick.

For the rest go to: http://www.townhall.com/columnists/GuestColumns/Fumento20050721.shtml

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