DuPont's Deceit

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Nov 2004 http://multinationalmonitor.org/mm2004/112004/names.html DuPont’s Deceit Teflon maker DuPont appears to have violated federal law requiring chemical companies to report new data on the dangers of their products. The Environmental Working Group in November provided the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with documents showing that the Teflon maker failed to report new evidence that neighbors of the sburg, West Virginia Teflon plant have Teflon chemicals in their blood at rates many times higher than the U.S. public. The EPA is currently embroiled in litigation against DuPont for hiding similar health and tap water pollution studies from the agency for 20 years. “Once again, Teflon maker DuPont has ignored its most basic legal responsibilities to the American public,” says Wiles, senior vice president at EWG. “DuPont is already

defending itself in court against EPA charges that it suppressed critical safety information from the communities surrounding its plants. What will it take for DuPont to tell the public everything it knows about the extraordinary dangers of Teflon chemicals?” The new study, conducted by DuPont consulting firm Exygen, shows that people living near the Teflon plant have amounts of the Teflon chemical known as C8 or PFOA in their blood that are several times the amounts currently found in the American public. More than 95 percent of the U.S. public has the Teflon chemical in their blood. Decades’ worth of peer-reviewed research shows that Teflon chemicals cause cancer, birth defects and developmental problems in laboratory animals. They never break down and are found in consumer products such as Teflon and other coated cookware, clothing, household cleaners, carpets and other textiles, fast food packaging and more. —

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