• @GnuLinuxDude@lemmy.ml
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    31 year ago

    Thanks for the correction. Reading a bit more into it, I gathered this: PFOA is (by this point pretty much was) the surfactant in the emulsion polymerization of PTFE, AKA Teflon. And then it’s as you say, PFOA is the part of Teflon that was replaced.

    • @Shikadi@wirebase.org
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      1 year ago

      Yup, but the chemical they replaced it with is almost exactly the same, and there’s not much of a reason to believe it’s any safer. Also, it could be safer if they just didn’t dump the chemicals, but we all know how that goes.