Utility Warns Customers: "Drinking Water Contaminated With C-8 May Pose Serious Health Risks"

After struggling with Teflon-related C-8 contamination from the nearby DuPont facility, Little Hocking Water Association issued an unusual warning along with its yearly report to consumers.

2004 CCR Report

'No Known Health Effects?'
It's Because Nobody Has Studied It.
After EPA announced plans to bypass industry's roadblocks and act on its own to determine how Teflon chemical C-8 gets into human blood and the environment, columnist Al Mascitti at the Wilmington News Journal points out why there are 'no known health effects' (a common DuPont defense argument): because no one is looking.

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