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Article: Panic in the pantry: a few thoughts on carcinogenicity.
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- Canadian Chemical News
- Article date:
- May 1, 2006
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Pop the bag into the microwave and in two minutes you can be stuffing handfuls of greasy popcorn into your mouth--along with a dose of perfluorochemicals. Consumers may be quite willing to put up with messy hands when they eat popcorn, but they certainly don't want to see an oil-stained package on the shelf. And that's where perfluorochemicals come in. Added to the packaging material, they impart grease-resistant properties. But they also have a tendency to migrate into the oily goo that is added to the popcorn to simulate butter. There is an indication that such package coatings may be a source of perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a compound found in the blood of virtually ...
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