Damsel in dis Dress wrote:
> Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>
> >I agree about the FDA, but silicone has been used for medical
devices for at
> >least 35 years that I know of. I'd assume it is safe or something
would
> >have been found by now.
>
> There have been a lot of lawsuits (I think even a class action suit)
by
> women who were harmed when their silicone breast implants broke and
the
> silicone spread to all kinds of weird places in their bodies and had
to be
> surgically removed..

Lesson to be learned - If you somehow end up with a silicone
baking pan surgically implanted, go get it removed soonest.
Somehow I don't think having some of it rub off is quite the
same thing though.

> That's why I chose saline. If they break, the fluid is just absorbed
into
> the body.

As cookware, saline sucks though. Okay for making stock and
stew, but the stuff tends to run off onto the stove so you
need to use a redundnt extra kettle with it. ;^)

When I read the topic "Silicone bakeware" I thought to
Silplat pads from France. They are sheets of silicone
something that always fells greasy, that can be put in the
over, that can be put in the dishwasher, that must have
some magic melted into their formula.