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The US has decided to restrict the use of a chemical employed in the manufacture of Teflon. Does this mean we should be worried about our cookware?As if eating healthily were not hard enough already, we now have to consider, once again, the pans we cook in. Last week, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued stricter limitations on the use of long-chain perfluorinated chemicals (PFCs), traditionally employed in the manufacture of non-stick pans.Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), linked in laboratory animals to an increase in tumours of the liver, pancreas and testicles and reduced fertility, is one of the chemicals used in the chain of reactions that makes the common non-stick surface Teflon.

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