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DuPont to pay record fine in Teflon settlement

Chicago Tribune, Michael Hawthorne
Published December 15, 2005

CHICAGO - DuPont will pay a record $10.25 million fine for failing to tell the Environmental Protection Agency what the company knew about a chemical used to make Teflon, including studies that found the substance in human blood and say it should be considered "extremely toxic." Federal regulators hope the legal settlement will help solve an environmental mystery that has baffled researchers. Perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, is turning up throughout the world, from polar bears near the Arctic Circle to toddlers in American cities. But nobody is sure why. To view the rest of this article, please visit www.chicagotribune.com. This article also ran in the Boston Globe.
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