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• Minnesota’s law firm in 3M PFC case disqualified

  A Court of Appeals conflict of interest ruling against law firm representing state is a major blow for the attorney general’s office. After 2½ years, more than 50 highly technical expert depositions and about 6 million pages of documents, the state’s high-profile lawsuit against 3M Co. over alleged damages from a widely used family of […]

• Perfluorinated chemical linked to later menstruation

  Prenatal exposure to a chemical used in the manufacture of nonstick cookware and stain-resistant materials may be linked to a delay in first menstrual period, according to research in Denmark. The study is among the first to look at the long-term health effects of prenatal exposure to perfluoroalkyl substances on human female reproduction, according to […]

• Purdue Researcher’s New ‘Tool for the Organic Chemist Toolbox’ Licensed to Sigma-Aldrich

  A Purdue University researcher’s U.S. patent for a safer, easier and “greener” method to incorporate fluorine into organic compounds – a common step in materials processing, drug discovery and synthesis of agricultural treatments – has been licensed to a subsidiary of Sigma-Aldrich Corporation, a St. Louis-based life science and high technology company. David Colby, assistant […]

• EPA C8 guidelines too weak, study says

  CHARLESTON, W.Va. — Federal government health advisories for drinking water contaminated with C8 may be far too weak, according to a new Harvard University study that attempts to set new recommended exposure guidance for the toxic chemical. The study examined immune suppression in exposed children and found potential reactions from C8 at levels far below […]

• 10 Facts About Fluoride

  Watch FAN’s New Video discussing these facts Download the Flyer! Fact #1: Most Developed Countries Do Not Fluoridate Their Water In the United States, health authorities call fluoridation “one of the top 10 public health achievements of the 20th century.” Few other countries share this view. In fact, more people drink artificially fluoridated water in […]

• Ohioans’ lawsuits blame diseases on DuPont

  26 lawsuits here cite chemical that plant discharged into river Hundreds of people in southern Ohio who say a DuPont chemical plant across the Ohio River contaminated their water and caused their health problems are suing the company in federal court in Columbus. They say that C8, a chemical used to make Teflon at the […]

• Fluorspar: An Investment Opportunity?

  Fluorspar is an industrial mineral that is composed of calcium fluoride (CaF2), which is made up of 51.1 percent calcium and 48.9 percent fluorine. Fluorspar takes its name from the Latin word “fluo” — which means “flow” — as it lowers the melting point of metal ore and and helps it flow more easily. Fluorspar […]

• Dozens of personal injury lawsuits filed against DuPont

  OHIO VALLEY — More than two dozen personal injury lawsuits have been filed by Mid-Ohio Valley residents against DuPont so far in response to findings by the C8 Science Panel linking C8 exposure to several different types of human disease. All but one of the cases was filed by Charleston, West Virginia attorney Kathy Brown […]

• C8 suits moved to federal court

  Four lawsuits by Athens County residents, filed last month in county Common Pleas Court against the giant chemical firm E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., have been transferred into federal court. The company has answered the suits, claiming it didn’t knowingly poison anyone, and asking that a federal judge throw the complaints out of court. […]

• Athens County residents file C8-related lawsuits

  Four Athens County residents filed lawsuits last week in Athens County Common Pleas Court against E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., over the company’s contamination of drinking-water supplies with C8, a chemical used in the manufacturing of Teflon at a DuPont plant in West Virginia. The four largely identical complaints, filed by West Virginia attorney […]