@purascans: 🔍 Sourced From Public US & EU Data 🔍 The chemical behind Teflon's nonstick coating has one of the ugliest track records in American manufacturing. DuPont made it at one plant in West Virginia, and the runoff crept into the river and the wells the people of Parkersburg drank from — it cost them over $670 million to settle. The coating itself is a "forever chemical," the same family behind the firefighting foam that contaminated hundreds of US military bases. Cast iron or stainless steel cooks the same, without it. Scanned with the Pura App