Industry Documents Show Corporate Ghouls Knew About Forever Chemicals for Decades

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An analysis of previously secret documents show how chemical companies like 3M and DuPont used deflection tactics seen in other industries.

. Major manufacturers of these chemicals were well aware of some of these medical concerns decades before the public was made aware of this in the early 1990s, the study explained.Researchers from the University of California San Francisco analyzed company documents from 1961 to 2006 to understand how chemical companies hid information about PFAS from regulators and the public.

“Our review of industry documents shows that companies knew PFAS was ‘highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested’ by 1970, forty years before the public health community,” study authors wrote.The documents discovered in that lawsuit were donated to the UCSF Chemical Industry Documents Library, which allowed researchers to analyze company strategy. If it sounds like you’ve heard that story before, you probably have. That case inspired theAccording to Tracey J.

After public awareness began to increase in the late 1990s and into the early 2000s, DuPont continued to push for better optics. Susan Stalnecker, the former vice president of DuPont, even emailed the EPA in 2006 to ask for support. After writing,two specific talking points: 1. That “Consumer products sold under the Teflon brand are safe” and 2.

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Secret industry documents reveal that makers of PFAS 'forever chemicals' covered up their health dangersThe chemical industry took a page out of the tobacco playbook when they discovered and suppressed their knowledge of health harms caused by exposure to PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances), according to an analysis of previously secret industry documents by UC San Francisco (UCSF) researchers.
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