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"The Teflon Toxin: DuPont and the Chemistry of Deception" [1]

"Concerns about the safety of Teflon, C8, and other long-chain perfluorinated chemicals first came to wide public attention more than a decade ago, but the story of DuPont’s long involvement with C8 has never been fully told. Over the past 15 years, as lawyers have been waging an epic legal battle — culminating as the first of approximately 3,500 personal injury claims comes to trial in September — a long trail of documents has emerged that casts new light on C8, DuPont, and the fitful attempts of the Environmental Protection Agency to deal with a threat to public health."

Sharon Lerner reports for the Intercept August 11, 2015. [2]
 

Chemicals [3]
Environmental Health [4]
Laws & Regulations [5]
National (U.S.) [6]
Public [7]
Source: The Intercept [2], 08/12/2015
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/teflon-toxin-dupont-and-chemistry-deception [2] https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/11/dupont-chemistry-deception/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/chemicals/toxics [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/environmental-health [5] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/laws [6] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national [7] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81