Subject: teflon cooking pots
Date: Mar 13 14:44:13 1999
From: Greg Toffic - greg.toffic at zoo.org


Tom,
At the Dallas Zoo, during the 60's (no earlier than 1966) in the diet kitchen of then new bird house , a teflon coated pan was left on a burner overnight. Nearly all, if not all, of the birds in the building were killed. I believe this may have been the first instance of this happening on that kind of scale. I don't know where this incident was reported on, but I'm pretty sure that it was published somewhere, probably in one of the zoo profession publications. Perhaps International Zoo Yearbook, International Zoo News, or the Communique, which is the monthly newsletter of what is now known as the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) but was then known as the American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums, at that time an arm of the National Parks and Recreation Association. This toxic threat is pretty widely known amongst aviculturists, and there may be other incidents that have occured since then. I'll ask Chuck Siegel, the current Bird Curator at Dallas Zoo, if he can locate a reference to that incident.


Greg

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>>> Tom Foote <footet at elwha.evergreen.edu> 03/13 12:38 PM >>>


Greetings--

I saw a discussion somewhere online (I don't know if
it was on Tweeters) about the danger of using teflon
frying pans, if you have caged birds int the house.
they apparently emit something that can kill
caged parakeets, parrots, macaws, etc..

anyone know anything about that? Got a cite, by chance?

thanks in advance..

Tom


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