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Pesticides, People and Nature

Journal of the Rachel Carson Council

ISSN for PRINT: 1520-9350

Institutional price:	$180.00
Issues per year:	2

Best Paper Award Selection - Editorial Board Site

2000, Volume2

47 pages

Issue price - $110.00

Fatalities in Four Psittacines, as a Result of Normal Operation of the Cleaning Cycle in a Polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE)-Coated Oven

Jennifer L. Ramelmeier
Rachel Carson Council, Inc., P. O. Box 10779, Silver Spring, MD 20913

James P. Davidson
Maryland Department of Agriculture, Animal Health Diagnostic Laboratory, 8077 Greenmead Drive, College Park, MD 20740

ABSTRACT

An owner of four parrots was operating the cleaning cycle of a polytetrafluorethylene (PTFE)-coated oven. After 2 hours, one parrot began showing signs of ataxia and died shortly thereafter. The three other parrots died a short time later. This case demonstrates that PTFE fume fatalities continue, regardless of the amount of literature and publicity addressing this problem, and indicates a need for further education of the public.