MAY 26, 2017 — JESS MANCINI PARKERSBURG — Residents from Huntington to Evansville, Ind., have higher-than-normal levels of perfluorooctanoic acid, also known as C8, according to a study released this month from the University of Cincinnati. The report, based on the analyses of blood samples collected over 22 years, said the exposure source was likely… Read More
1982, Nov. 23 DuPont medical director writes: “I recommend that available practical steps be taken to reduce this [C-8] exposure. . . . C-8 is retained in the blood for a long time, creating concern in other areas such as blood donations, . . . There is obviously great potential for current or future exposure… Read More
1981, Apr. 6 DuPont requires all female employees out of the Teflon division after 2 of 7 pregnant workers gave birth to children with birth defects, and industry studies found a relationship between C8 and birth defects. See more here.… Read More
1979, Sept. 4 DuPont finds out that monkeys died when exposed to certain levels of C8. See more here.… Read More
1978, Sept. 28 DuPont determines that employees working around C8 had higher rates of abnormal liver function tests. See more here.… Read More
1962, Feb. 9 DuPont discovers C8 exposure linked to the enlargement of rats’ testis, adrenal glands, and kidneys. See more here.… Read More
1961, Nov. 9 DuPont Chief of Toxicology says C8 is toxic, causes enlargement of livers in rats, and should be “handled with extreme care”. See more here.… Read More
Keep Your Promises DuPont, which represents people living near DuPont’s West Virginia plant who were exposed to PFOA, saw the spinoff as a deliberate dodge. “It looked to us like another way for DuPont to avoid paying the people of the mid-Ohio valley what they were owed,” said Dugas. “All of a sudden these massive liabilities are being transferred to a poorly capitalized company.”… Read More
In a new study of hundreds of Cincinnati moms, higher levels of exposure to the common industrial chemical PFOA were linked to a greater likelihood of ending breastfeeding by three months.… Read More
Residents Sue Firms for at Least $5 Million Over Tainted Water MAY. 9, 2016, 5:23 PM BY MIKE POLHAMUS Attorneys filed a class-action suit Friday against the company they say has poisoned more than 500 Bennington and North Bennington residents through mismanagement of a toxic industrial chemical. The complaint accuses Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, and the… Read More
