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• Examining the water we drink: Family’s lost herd led to revelations about C8

  When the Tennant family lost an entire herd of cattle to a mysterious wasting disease on their Washington, W.Va., farm they hired an attorney and went looking for answers. In the process of testing their land for clues as to the source of the problem that ruined their herd, studies revealed the presence of C8 […]

• Class Action – Part 1

  “Mysterious wasting disease” and death of 260 cattle in West Virginia are linked to DuPont’s landfilling of PFOA (Ammonium perfluorooctanoate or C8) wastes near the farm. In 1999, a farm farmily sued DuPont for the death of their cattle and the ill health of exposed family and farm workers. DuPont settled the lawsuit within 2 […]

• Reports, Studies, Statements

  “The PFOS story is likely to emerge as one of the apocryphal examples of 20th century experimentation with widespread chemical exposures: prolific use and almost no testing for safety, until unexpectedly and almost serendipitously, it is discovered as a contaminant virtually everywhere. And as is often the case in these stories, the company producing PFOS […]

• PFOA and PFOS

  The molecular structures of the principal PFOA and PFOS chemicals. PFOA PFOS PFOA is perfluorooctanoic acid and is sometimes called C8 or C-8. It is a man-made chemical and does not occur naturally in the environment. — Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA or C8) — CAS No: 335-67-1. The “PFOA” acronym is used to indicate not only […]

• Fluoride: The Hidden Poison in the National Organic Standards

  [Editors Note: This article raises serious health questions about the continued use of fluoride in food production, specifically organic farming systems, and in public water supplies. It leads to a larger discussion of allowable inert or secret product ingredients and permitted synthetic materials in organic agriculture under the national organic standards, adopted in December 2000. […]

• Teflon Pans: A Source of Fluoride Exposure?

  In 1975, Full and Parkins reported in the Journal of Dental Research that boiling water in teflon plans produced a “pronounced increase” in fluoride levels. An excerpt from this study is reproduced below. Teflon is made from fluorinated chemical, and thus the relationship between Teflon use and fluoride contamination of food is plausible. The following […]

• 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. […]

• EPA targets chemical often dumped in Chicago sewers

  Chemicals used in Scotchgard and Teflon are regulated, but metal plating companies got a pass by Bush’s EPA Alarmed by research linking chemicals used to make Scotchgard and Teflon to cancer, liver disease and other health problems, the federal government spent the last decade pressuring manufacturers to phase out the stain-resistant compounds. But scientists at […]

• C8 exposure linked to ADHD in children

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Children exposed to higher levels of C8 are at an increased risk of developing attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, according to a scientific paper published this week. The study, by researchers at Boston University and the Harvard School of Public Health, also found higher risks for children exposed to other similar perfluorinated chemicals. […]

• WV & Ohio: New study details C8 in private water wells

  There’s a new study out this week that describes the first detailed study of C8 pollution of private drinking water wells and the relationship between that contamination and the levels of C8 in blood of the residents who used those wells. As Kellyn S. Betts describes in a news article in Environmental Health Perspectives: The […]