DuPont used to buy C8 from the 3M Co. in Minnesota, process it at the Fayetteville Works plant, and then ship it to the Washington Works plant in West Virginia for final production of Teflon.

FOR DECADES, 3M was the primary producer of C8, or PFOA, and was the sole producer of a related chemical known as PFOS.But while DuPont was caught up in a massive class-action suit over C8, 3M has ...

Bartlett’s lawyers also revealed documents showing that DuPont did in fact follow 3M’s directive in its facilities in Japan, China, and the Netherlands, where it burned C8 waste. In ...

After numerous investigations and legal efforts, DuPont began filtering C8 from the water in 2005. That year, the company also began paying for health studies of people living near the plant, in ...

It detailed a study by 3M, which sold C8 to DuPont, that detailed eye deformities in lab animals whose mothers were fed C8 during pregnancy. Bailey went to the plant's medical doctor and asked if ...

Manufacturers DuPont and 3M kept their knowledge secret, ... But they added, “a possible increase in prostate cancers” had been reported at a different 3M plant manufacturing C8.

Over the years, DuPont and 3M commissioned dozens of other health studies on C8 using mice, rats, rabbits, dogs, fish and monkeys. By 1993, tests showed a link between testicular, pancreatic and ...

There was also a memo that revealed that C8, ... DuPont and 3M also discovered in 1980 that two of eight pregnant employees who worked in C8 manufacturing gave birth to babies with defects.

This article does not focus on GenX, but on the compound GenX was made to replace -- C8. DuPont, which carved Chemours from itself in 2015, made C8 at Fayetteville Works from 2002 until 2014.

A federal court jury in Columbus is deliberating whether chemical giant DuPont must pays an Ohio woman millions ... is among 3,500 people who say they became ill because the company dumped C8, ...

DuPont, the number two United States chemicals maker, failed to report human health risks from a key ingredient in Teflon beginning in the early 1980s, the US Environmental Protection Agency ...

PFAS were first developed in the 1940s and it was not until the late 1990s that the public knew about the dangers they pose. But, according to a new study published in Annals of Global Health, DuPont ...