DOVER, Del. – One year after accepting a government challenge towork toward eliminating the use of a potentially dangerous chemicalused to make Teflon and other products, the DuPont Co. said Mondayit ...

WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday that low-level exposure to perfluorooctanoic acid, a chemical used to make Teflon, could pose “a potential risk of developmental and ...

Teflon is so well-known that a lot of people refer to all nonstick pots and pans as Teflon. The fact is, not all nonstick cookware is Teflon. Teflon has been around a long time and so have concerns ...

In a rare move to phase out a widely used industrial compound, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Wednesday that it was asking all U.S. companies to virtually eliminate public exposure to a ...

It's on saucepans, clothing, even buildings, but now Teflon - the famed non-stick chemical - is at the centre of a slippery controversy about cancer and birth defects. Since its invention in the 1930s ...