Heating Releases Cookware Chemicals
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By Raloff, Janet  ENVIRONMENT  Nonstick coatings on fry pans and microwave-popcorn bags can, when heated, release traces of potentially toxic perfluorinated chemicals into the air and the food being cooked, a new study suggests.
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ALBANY, Ga. -- For a quarter century, chefs at pricey steakhouses have been searing meat on burners that cook with infrared energy. Now the high-temperature technology may be coming to a backyard barbecue near you.
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Â· Trade group urges ban for chemical additivesÂ· Anger over burden on parents to check labels
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By Jacob Luecke, Columbia Daily Tribune, Mo.  Mar. 4--Plastic companies use bisphenol-A to make a lot of things -- food containers, water bottles and even baby bottles. But there's only one thing Fredrick vom Saal would like the industry to do with it: Take it off the market.
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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 other adverse effects" on human health.
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These products don't come without serious risks.
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By Randall Chase  DOVER, Del. - One year after accepting a government challenge to work toward eliminating the use of a potentially dangerous chemical used to make Teflon and other products, the DuPont Co. said Monday it plans to stop using the chemical by 2015.
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U.S. scientists have discovered a process by which a kind of grease can make some plastics vastly better electrical conductors.
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Â· Third of all food products tested had chemical tracesÂ· Very small percentage of samples posed health risk
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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/reports/c51923)  has announced the addition of Hazardous Chemicals: Control and  Regulation in the European Market to their offering.
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After a technology upgrade, the popular childrenâs oven is being recalled over safety concerns.
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By Dave Gustafson, The Charleston Gazette, W.Va.  Sep. 22--When a child gets into the chemicals stored beneath the sink or a hazardous materials tank leaks in a neighborhood, there is always someone like V.
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By Donna Littlejohn DAILY BREEZE  For years, San Pedro residents like Janet Gunter have lived with the uneasy knowledge that operating close to their neighborhoods are storage facilities that handle dangerous substances that could spill, release toxins or even explode.
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Around 50 products withdrawn amid fears they may have be contaminated with diesel
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Lenox Group Inc recalled about 43,000 warmer dishes on Friday because flames from the tea candle can extend up the sides of the dish, creating a fire and burn hazard, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said.
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By Allison Connolly, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 27--Three Millennium Chemicals properties here are being sold again, this time to a foreign owner. In all, more than 400 workers in the Baltimore area would be affected.   Lyondell Chemical Co.
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By Matt Murphy, The Sun, Lowell, Mass.  Jun. 12--BOSTON -- Formaldehyde in toothpaste. Carcinogens in dry cleaning. Hazardous flame retardants in television sets, broken down into household dust from the glare of the sun.