“These documents reveal clear evidence that the chemical industry knew about the dangers of PFAS.'
“These documents reveal clear evidence that the chemical industry knew about the dangers of PFAS and failed to let the public, regulators, and even their own employees know the risks,” said Tracey J. Woodruff, Ph.D., professor and director of the UCSF Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment , in anThis is the first time researchers have examined PFAS documents spanning 45 years .
They also looked into industry tactics for covering up the toxicity of their PFAS-based products. The authors emphasize that this has significantly delayed regulatory bodies' harmful PFAS use. The paper mentions that “DuPont had evidence of PFAS toxicity from internal animal and occupational studies that they did not publish in the scientific literature and failed to report their findings to EPA as required under TSCA. These documents were all marked as ‘confidential,’ and in some cases, industry executives are explicit that they ‘wanted this memo destroyed.’”
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