They make cooking convenient, but what are the potential health risks? The programme Talking Point speaks to experts, including one involved in a study in Singapore that could make people sit up and take notice.
SINGAPORE: For as long as non-stick frying pans have been a mainstay in many home kitchens, there has been a debate about how safe these pans are.
The researchers considered a higher level of chemicals to be two to three nanograms per millilitre of blood. A nanogram is a billionth of a gram, not visible to the naked eye. Professor Jerry Chan researches the various conditions that can affect a woman’s ability to conceive. Non-stick cookware chemicals pose a risk if they seep into the food, which he said happens at around 250 degrees Celsius.
“Then you have more contact with these ‘forever chemicals’ — so more contact points mean more of the release can happen.” The process of making these products, however, causes these chemicals to leak into the environment. They are emitted from factories into the air, go into land and sea when it rains and find their way into food and water supplies.Researchers have found them even in remote areas: in rainwater on the Tibetan Plateau and, as reported last year, in the snows of Antarctica.
“What we’re concerned is the chronic exposure. When the exposure is low, … yet the chemicals stay in our body for such a long time, the chemicals now get accumulated gradually,” he said. When it comes to frying pans, one option is stainless steel. It is durable, resistant to damage and relatively easy to maintain. But can food fried on these pans slide off nicely?
The way to test the pan’s temperature is to add drops of water. Normally, when the pan is not hot enough, the water will “stay in one spot and bubble like a little puddle”, instead of skating across the pan.
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