Internal documents reveal how DuPont and 3M kept the dangers of PFAS chemicals secret from the public, from regulators and even from their own employees.
Babies with birth defects. Lab rats with enlarged livers. Dogs that died soon after exposure.
The authors of the paper compared the tactics of DuPont and 3M to tobacco companies, which notoriously suppressed medical research that exposed their products’ link to cancer. Two pregnant employees who worked with C-8 gave birth to babies with serious defects: One child had a single nostril and the other had eye defects. DuPont never communicated this information to employees.
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