A new study reveals just how many tiny plastic particles might be seeping into our foods after contact with cooking utensils, with a small broken crack on a Teflon-coated pan potentially releasing as many as 9,100 particles.
Non-stick pots and pans covered with Teflon gradually lose their coating as we use and wash them, which could be a problem during meal preparation. However, gauging just how much plastic is released is difficult.
"It gives us a strong warning that we must be careful about selecting and using cooking utensils to avoid food contamination,"In an attempt to assess the risk, the team used what's known as ato study the microplastics and nanoplastics on a Teflon coating at a molecular level via photon scattering. They also applied bespoke algorithms to calculate how much of this coating might come unstuck and find its way into food.
A broken coating could cause as many as 2.3 million tiny particles to be released during meal preparation, according to the numbers – that's based on 30 seconds of cooking time if a cooking turner has ruptured a Teflon surface. It might be that older cooking pots and pans should be put out of use after a certain time or that Teflon coatings could be made more resistant to the wear and tear they go through while being washed and used.
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