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Stain-resistant, nonstick, waterproof, and lethal : the hidden dangers of C8 / Callie Lyons. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007. - x, 191 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Introduction : PFOA 101 -- The Tennant farm, Washington, West Virginia -- Dupont Washington Works and the history of C8 -- Dupont Washington Works : a history of contamination -- Welcome to Little Hocking, Ohio : the most C8-contaminated place on earth -- The conspiratorial bureaucracies -- The environmental working group -- The federal investigation -- The class action lawsuit and the groundbreaking C8 health project -- Dr. Emmett's alarming study -- 3M and the Scotchgard phaseout -- Strange science -- The canary in the coal mine : polymer fume fever -- A growing controversy -- Known pathways to human exposure -- The slowly dwindling future of C8.
9780275994525 (alk. paper) 027599452X (alk. paper)
2007000064
Perfluorooctanoic acid--Toxicology.
Perfluorooctanoic acid--Environmental aspects--Ohio.
Perfluorooctanoic acid--Environmental aspects--West Virginia.
363.1791 Lyo 9
Stain-resistant, nonstick, waterproof, and lethal : the hidden dangers of C8 / Callie Lyons. - Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2007. - x, 191 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Introduction : PFOA 101 -- The Tennant farm, Washington, West Virginia -- Dupont Washington Works and the history of C8 -- Dupont Washington Works : a history of contamination -- Welcome to Little Hocking, Ohio : the most C8-contaminated place on earth -- The conspiratorial bureaucracies -- The environmental working group -- The federal investigation -- The class action lawsuit and the groundbreaking C8 health project -- Dr. Emmett's alarming study -- 3M and the Scotchgard phaseout -- Strange science -- The canary in the coal mine : polymer fume fever -- A growing controversy -- Known pathways to human exposure -- The slowly dwindling future of C8.
9780275994525 (alk. paper) 027599452X (alk. paper)
2007000064
Perfluorooctanoic acid--Toxicology.
Perfluorooctanoic acid--Environmental aspects--Ohio.
Perfluorooctanoic acid--Environmental aspects--West Virginia.
363.1791 Lyo 9