Source:  NORTH CAROLINA HEALTH NEWS, 9/10/20


Months after DuPont bought the rights to produce Perfluorooctanoic acid (known as PFOA or C8) from Minnesota’s 3M Corp. in 2002, DuPont discovered that the suspected carcinogen used to make Teflon had leaked into the groundwater under the company’s Fayetteville Works plant. Except for some local newspaper articles and rumblings from environmental groups, the full extent – and the possible consequences – of the contamination...

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