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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedEPA investigates group's charge regarding PFOA. (News).(the EPA investigates whether or not DuPont violated federal law)
Chemical Market Reporter, July, 2003
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency (EPA) is investigating an environmental group's charge that DuPont may have violated a federal law by withholding documents from the government concerning health risks associated with perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used in the manufacture of Teflon fluoropolymers.
"The agency is taking the allegations of reporting violations seriously and is in the process of examining the more than two decades of reporting activity for the chemical and related materials," says Charles Auer, director of EPA's office of pollution prevention and toxics, in a letter to Environmental Working Group (EWG) president Ken Cook. DuPont vigorously denies it violated federal law and asserts that the EWG has misrepresented PFOA as a...
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