How Teflon Poisoned the World

Hello! This is the story of how Polytetrafluoroethylene, brand name Teflon, has poisoned almost the entire world with Perfluorooctanoic acid, PFOA, which is cancer-causing. The amount of PFOA in the average person isn't necessarily harmful, but nevertheless PFOA can be found in dolphins in Florida, the rain in Tibet, household dust, and food and water. It's basically everywhere. Yay.

Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/GeorgRockallSchmidt
Twitter: https://twitter.com/grockallschmidt

Sources:
EPA Advisory Landing Page https://www.epa.gov/sdwa/drinking-water-health-advisories-genx-chemicals-and-pfbs

EPA proposes regulation https://www.wbur.org/news/2023/03/14/toxic-chemicals-water-epa-pfas-regulations-pfoa-pfna-pfhxs-pfbs-genx

Federal Register EPA Plan summary https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/03/29/2023-05471/pfas-national-primary-drinking-water-regulation-rulemaking

NC EPA GENX https://www.wral.com/story/epa-sets-stricter-standards-for-genx-other-forever-chemicals-in-nc-drinking-water/20332202/

EPA GenX Toxicity Report https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-03/GenX-Toxicity-Assessment-factsheet-March-2023-update.pdf

PFAS EPA Roadmap https://www.epa.gov/pfas/pfas-strategic-roadmap-epas-commitments-action-2021-2024

PFOA In rain worldwide https://cen.acs.org/environment/persistent-pollutants/PFOA-rain-worldwide-exceeds-EPA/100/i27

PFOA PFOS in China https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19775722/

EWG- PFC https://www.ewg.org/research/pfcs-global-contaminants

CDC PFOA Fact Sheet https://www.cdc.gov/biomonitoring/PFOA_FactSheet.html

American Cancer Society – PFOA https://www.cancer.org/cancer/risk-prevention/chemicals/teflon-and-perfluorooctanoic-acid-pfoa.html

3M Taves 1975 Document https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21193237-mn-3m-guys-paper

1977 Fluoride In Blood Timeline https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/4570511-MN-3M-1977-Fluorine-in-Blood-Timeline.html

3M Knew About Dangers – The Intercept https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-pfos/

Teflon's Toxic Legacy – EcoWatch https://www.ecowatch.com/teflons-toxic-legacy-dupont-knew-for-decades-it-was-contaminating-wate-1882142514.html

C8 Suspected In Birth Defects – Delaware Online https://www.delawareonline.com/story/news/2016/04/02/c8-suspected-birth-defects-one-womans-story/81473242/

Roanoke River Contamination https://roanoke.com/news/local/source-of-forever-chemical-in-the-roanoke-river-traced-to-elliston-plant/article_e7953262-613e-11ed-baad-bb83787f5da8.html

NCBI – Forever Chemicals in Blood Stats https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2072821/
Agency for Toxic Substances And Disease Registry – PFAS Study https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/pfas/health-effects/us-population.html

Rob Bilott – NYT Magazine https://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/10/magazine/the-lawyer-who-became-duponts-worst-nightmare.html