Key Problems: Federal Inaction and Decades of Industry Research and Secrecy
• 1961 – DuPont finds evidence of liver toxicity in animals • 1962 – DuPont finds evidence of toxicity in humans • 1976 – 3M finds PFOA in workers’ blood • 1981 – 3M finds PFOA causes rare birth defects in rats
• 1981 – DuPont workers give birth to infants with similar rare birth defects; DuPont removes all women workers from Teflon unit but doesn’t say why and doesn’t share this data with EPA • 1984 – DuPont finds PFOA in community drinking water, doesn’t disclose results • 1987 – 3M looks for uncontaminated blood samples to compare to their workers and finds widespread global contamination For more details: DuPont and 3M documents in Environmental Working Group’s Chemical Industry Archives; Toxic Docs website; Rob Billot, Exposure: Poisoned Water, Corporate Greed, and One Lawyer's Twenty-Year Battle against DuPont ; Callie Lyons, Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof, and Lethal: The Hidden Dangers of C8 29
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