Mindful Musings

MIcrowave Popcorn may cause cancer The culprit is FLUOROTELOMERS (which was spelled incorrectly on the site linked).

American’s gobble up more than 17 billion quarts of popcorn a year, but a recent FDA study found that a chemical coating used in microwave popcorn bags is seeping into popcorn.
DuPont is one company that makes the chemical coating. They say flurotelemers {fleuro-tella-meers} can come off the bag and into the popcorn.

A former DuPont scientist warns that more of the chemical is coming off the paper than originally thought.

“Even before we cook the popcorn the butter is already contaminated with a paper flurochemical that will be absorbed into your blood and stay in your blood for a long, long time.”

FDA scientists say the popcorn is still safe. But, now another study has found an acid that can be extracted from the chemical causes cancer in animals and is “likely to cause cancer in humans.”

The popcorn council says companies are moving away from using this coating on their bags.