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  • 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. […]

  • New study finds cancer rate higher in C8-exposed areas

    PARKERSBURG – A recently released study authored by Dr. James Dahlgren, a nationally known toxicologist retained by plaintiffs in a pending Wood County Circuit Court C8 class action lawsuit filed against DuPont Washington Works, states “the overall cancer prevalence rate is higher in the population exposed to C8 when compared to the general population.” Perfluorooctanonic […]

  • 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. […]

  • Cryolite. May 1993. Fluorine compounds. Pesticide Tolerance and Animal Feed Additive Regulation. Final Rule. Federal Register.

    Federal Register ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 180 and 186 [PP 9F3739 and FAP 1H5604/R1190; FRL-4579-1] RIN 2070-AB78 Pesticide Tolerance and Animal Feed Additive Regulation for Fluoride Compounds AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). ACTION: Final rule. ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY 40 CFR Parts 180 and 186 [PP 9F3739 and FAP 1H5604/R1190; FRL-4579-1] RIN 2070-AB78 Pesticide […]

  • The Phosphate Fertilizer Industry: An Environmental Overview

    1. Introduction They call them “wet scrubbers” – the pollution control devices used by the phosphate industry to capture fluoride gases produced in the production of commercial fertilizer. In the past, when the industry let these gases escape, vegetation became scorched, crops destroyed, and cattle crippled. Today, with the development of sophisticated air-pollution control technology, […]

  • Fluoridation of Water: Questions about health risks and benefits remain after more than 40 years

    Chemical & Engineering News’ infamous and thorough review of the science underlying water fluoridation.

  • Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?

    Brownsville, Texas – On a hairpin bend of the Rio Grande, where the south wind from Mexico carries the sweet smell of freshly cut sorghum and the stench of chemicals, something terrible befell Janet Ramirez. The child she had prayed for, her first, was born dead with a tangled mass of nerve endings instead of […]

  • Ohio: C8 panel to do interviews with 40,000 residents and 6,000 former DuPont workers

    The C8 Science Panel wants to interview some 40,000 Mid-Ohio Valley residents about their medical history in an ongoing effort to determine if there is any link between the chemical and various diseases. Over the next few weeks, introductory letters about the follow-up studies will be mailed to adults who signed consent forms for the […]

  • EU: Scientific Opinion of PFOA and PFOS from the Panel on Contaminants in the Food chain

    Perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS), perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and their salts Scientific Opinion of the Panel on Contaminants in the Food chain Summary Perfluoroalkylated substances (PFAS) is the collective name for a vast group of fluorinated compounds, including oligomers and polymers, which consist of neutral and anionic surface active compounds with high thermal, chemical and biological inertness. […]

  • Minnesota: What’s happened since 2005

    Since 2005, when attention was first given to the contamination from PFOS and PFOA, several major developments have occurred in the research and political arenas. Early 2005: Fardin Oliaei, the MPCA’s lead researcher on PFCs, warns two Health Department officials about preliminary tests that show high levels of PFBA in soil and water samples from […]