Film Shows How DuPont Covered up Health Risks of Teflon Contamination Across globe
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A film and an official selection in 2018 Sundance Film Festival exposes how the chemical giant, Dupont, for years covered up the health risks of precursors used in the manufacturing of Teflon, the globally popular non-stick polymer coating.
Amy Goodman of Democracy Now recently interviewed three people who personally battled with DuPont and are featured in the new documentary called “The Devil We Know,” that looks at how former DuPont employees, residents and lawyers took on the chemical giant to expose the danger of the chemical C8, Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a synthetic surfactant found in Teflon and countless household products — from stain- and water-resistant apparel to microwave popcorn bags to dental floss.
DuPont had a secret it never told the American public or many of its own workers: C8 is highly toxic. But that didn’t stop them from discharging C8 into the waterways around its manufacturing plant in Parkersburg, West Virginia. It’s now been linked to six diseases, including testicular and kidney cancers. The chemical has been used so widely, it’s now in the bloodstream of 99 percent of Americans, even newborn babies. And the chemical is bioresistant, meaning it does not break down.
Bucky Bailey, whose mother worked in the Teflon division of a DuPont plant in West Virginia while she was pregnant with him, was born with only one nostril and a deformed eye and has undergone more than 30 surgeries to fix the birth defects. Joe Kiger was the lead plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against DuPont, and a school teacher in Parkersburg, West Virginia, who suffered from liver disease. Rob Bilott is the attorney that brought DuPont to court.
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