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by gambiting 1403 days ago
The problem isn't that no one knew what's in the fumes and that those chemicals are being eaten/inhaled. It's that in laboratory testing they never showed any impact on humans - but scale it to few billion people and then you notice increased liver cancer rates.

The only good thing is that making non stick pans with this stuff has already been banned in US and EU for a good while.