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• Health Study may Include C8

  A major federal health survey could include the first independent analysis of how widely a common but increasingly controversial chemical is affecting humans. The chemical, which is found in everything from stain-proof carpeting to water-resistant clothing, already is known to have contaminated public water supplies along the Ohio River and to have mysteriously accumulated in […]

• Danger in the skillet zone

  Saute in a nonstick skillet. For decades, it’s been the mantra of low-fat cooking. But what if that skillet you’ve been using turns out to be worse for you health that the fat you so desperately want to avoid? the watchdog Environmental Working Group (EWG) hopes to find out. the have petitioned the Consumers Product […]

• Examining the water we drink: Concerns about C8 linger

  Concerns about polluted drinking water began to emerge for more than 12,000 Washington County residents when a manufacturing chemical called C8 was revealed in some area public water systems in January 2002. But local water systems had been secretly tested by officials at DuPont’s Washington, W.Va., Works plant, the source of the chemical, decades earlier. […]

• Research group presses fast food industry for facts on packaging

  Is there a C8-related chemical wrapped around your cheeseburger? With the PFOA family of manufacturing chemicals under investigation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, a Washington, D.C.-based scientific research group thinks consumers have a right to know the answer. The Teflon-related chemical C8 has been a topic of interest in the Mid-Ohio Valley since it […]

• DuPont pushing for weaker limits on PFOA

  Interesting news out today from Inside EPA (subscription required), which is reporting that DuPont Co. is leading a new push by industry to weaken a water pollution limit on the toxic chemical PFOA and other perfluorinated chemicals. Officials from DuPont, 3M and other PFC companies met behind closed doors last month with the U.S. Environmental […]

• EPA may propose C8 rules — in 2012

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — The Obama administration announced Wednesday it might write rules to limit the manufacture, processing and use of C8 and related perfluorinated chemicals, but would not propose any such regulations until at least 2012. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency officials issued their promised “action plans” for perfluorinated chemicals, or PFCs, and three other families […]

• Minnesota: East metro: 3M, Met Council agree that Mississippi is not ‘impaired’

  Two legal adversaries have found something they can agree on — the Mississippi River is clean enough. The Metropolitan Council and 3M Co. have asked the state of Minnesota to declare that the pollution of the river by 3M’s chemicals wasn’t as bad as previously thought. But at the same time, the Met Council is […]

• Is there a danger in the air for cooks?

  DuPont says kitchen temperatures are not hot enough to release harmful fumes Scientists have long known that fumes from overheated Teflon can cause health problems in industrial settings: People can contract a flu-like illness with fever, chills and shortness of breath that can last up to two days. They, however, do not agree on whether […]

• Group to help spread word about C8 project

  A community group is working to educate residents of the Little Hocking Water Association Service District about a study that could provide answers about the health effects of the chemical known as C8. The first newsletter about the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences study will be mailed by early next week to the 1,200 […]

• Examining the water we drink: C8 spawns chemical family

  The Teflon-related chemical that has become familiar to local people by the trade name C8 is named for the eight carbon atoms in its chain. If the scientific designation of ammonium perfluorooctanoate sounds complicated, the thousands of consumer products and technological advances made possible by the substance are nothing short of miraculous. “PFOA, or C8, […]