DuPont buys bottled water that's tainted

DuPont buys bottled water that's tainted
TEFLON TROUBLE Contaminant found in bottled water given to Ohioans with tainted tap water

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Friday, January 13, 2006
Associated Press

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DuPont Co. agreed to pay for bottled water until it installs filters to remove the chemical at well water treatment plants to settle a 2001 class action lawsuit. Ohio and West Virginia residents who sued claimed the company intentionally withheld and misrepresented information about the human health threat posed by perfluorooctanoic acid and its salts, known as C8...

Crystal Spring bottled water is sold in six counties in Ohio and seven counties in West Virginia, Matheny said. The company is sending 2,000 letters to customers to tell them about plans to install a filter at the spring. Tests on the bottled water showed C8 levels at 13 to 17 parts per trillion. The well supplying residents' tap water contained 3,500 parts per trillion to 7,200 parts per trillion.

A study on about 325 residents who receive water from the Little Hocking water district showed that they had 80 times more C8 in the blood than the general population, according to the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

DuPont, which says C8 poses no human health threat, agreed to pay more than $107 million to settle the lawsuit with the residents over the chemical from the company's plant near Parkersburg, W.Va. DuPont, based in Wilmington, Del., also is paying for health screenings.