Comments on: C8 update: EPA may set limit for PFOA and PFOS

By: John

John — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 15:34:10 +0000

What the EPA considers “new information” is their own work from 2007… From your Federal Register link “…EPA has evaluated new information from the October 9, 2007, significant new use
rule (SNUR) that shows there are ongoing uses of PFOS that could lead to its occurrence in
water (FR 72 57222-57235; USEPA 2007b).” Are there continual submissions of information under this SNUR that are indeed “new”? Odd wording.

Anita, the new news being told is a new proposal/draft to regulate PFOS in drinking water…

By: Anita Knight

Anita Knight — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 04:59:18 +0000

This is nothing new. National Academy of Sciences report for Congress, 1993, “Health Effects of Ingested Fluoride”, page 129, notes concern that this form of fluorides, organic, found in human plasma along with the fluoridation form; inorganic, the extent to which they are interchangeable in unknown.

Further, for a decade PFOA and PFOS have been found in the blood of people and animals from the Antarctic to the Arctic. PFOA was found in 96 % of children tested in 23 states in the US. Article in Tampa Tribune , Oct. 3, 2004; “Teflon Chemical Is Found In People, Raising Concerns”.

By: funfundvierzig

funfundvierzig — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 21:37:32 +0000

It’s good to see a more invigorated U. S. EPA pushing ahead towards the assessment of the dangers of the extraordinarily toxic Teflon chemical, PFOA, in drinking water. For decades the truculent and secretive executives of the disreputable DuPont Company have never come clean on this vile industrial toxin used to make Teflon.

Sadly, in the meantime unsuspecting children, and their parents and grandparents in the City of Parkersburg in propinquity to DuPont’s historically prolifically PFOA-polluting Teflon factory continue to drink down DuPont’s PFOA poison from their home faucets. And they will continue to bathe in it, and splash and swallow it in their kiddie pools.

A lawsuit to redress this sad situation for the City’s residents was successfully attacked by DuPont’s powerful legal forces.

…funfundvierzig..