Environmental Issues Regarding Fluorinated Substances

A major environmental and health issue is currently the toxicity of PFOA and its salts used in the polymerization process and in processing of the majority of fluoropolymers [27,28] and issues involving the use of PTFE coating on cookware and its thermal degradation [29-32]. More on this subject is in Appendix 1. 

Ebnesajjad, S. Fluoroplastics, Volume 1, Non-Melt Processible Fluoroplastics, Plastics Design Library, Norwich, NY, p.105 (2000). 

Charpentier, P. A., DeSimone J.M., and Roberts, G.W. in Proceedings of the 51st Canadian Chemical Engineering Conference, Halifax, NS, 2001. 

Stevens, R.D., Nippon Gomu Kyokaishi (Journal of the Society of Rubber Industry, Japan), Vol.79, No. 3, p. 153 (2006). 

Shenoy, S. Me, S., Ohsaka, T. and Ohsaka, Y.,U.S. Patent 6,960,633, 2005 to Virginia Commonwealth University and Daikin Institnte of Advanced Chemistry and Technology (Dai-Act). 

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