Nonstick Pan Safety ANSWERS

Nonstick pans are pretty safe; the factories making them are more cause for concern. Thanks to HelloFresh for sponsoring this video. Get started with eight free meals — that’s $80 off your first month of HelloFresh. Go to https://bit.ly/30LBupZ and enter adamragusea80.

**SOURCES IN ORDER OF APPEARANCE**

Google map of the Washington Works Teflon plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia: https://goo.gl/maps/sqj8hV4djQ6K8WU76

British Medical Journal case report on a 29-year-old man in Japan with polymer fume fever: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...

2015 Environmental Working Group report on the risks of PFOA and the level of contamination in most U.S. localities: https://www.ewg.org/research/teflon-c...

Dr. Mimi Huang of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences: https://www.niehs.nih.gov/research/at...

2015 article by Dr. Huang about nonstick pans: https://tibbs.unc.edu/ask-a-toxicolog...

Article by Teflon maker Chemours (formerly DuPont) explaining how Teflon works: https://www.chemours.com/Teflon/en_US...

2015 article on polymer (and metal) fume fever and its prevalence, in the Journal of Clinical Toxicology: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2...

2015 article in the Journal of Exotic Pet Medicine mentioning the effect of polymer fumes on birds: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

DuPont announcement of its $670 million settlement stemming from the Washington Works plant's release of PFOA into the surrounding environment: https://www.dupont.com/news/dupont-re...

2016 investigative report by The Intercept about GenX, the replacement for PFOA: https://theintercept.com/2016/03/03/n...