Ban C 8 the “non-stick chemical”

Based on EPA's own data, C8 is found in drinking water in 94 counties in 27 states in the US. But the EPA still hasn't set a reasonable limit for this highly toxic industrial chemical used in non-stick pans and other products.

A member of the chemical family known as PFCs (or perfluorinated chemicals), C8 is also used in rain gear, upholstery treatments and even in cupcake wrappers and pizza box and popcorn bag liners. Environmental Working Group, which calls C8 the "Teflon chemical," says it's been "linked to cancer, birth defects, heart disease and other illness." These fluorinated chemicals can even "decrease immune response to vaccines," notes "The Madrid Statement" on PFASs.  Recently, adds Mother Jones, an Ohio jury agreed with a woman who claimed Dupont's years of dumping C8 into the Ohio River contributed to her kidney cancer.

Even though in 2005 Dupont was sued by a group of 70,000 West Virginia and Ohio residents for contaminating drinking water with C8 and fined by EPA $16 million for withholding information about C8's health hazards, EPA is still stalling on regulating C8! So far EPA has set only a voluntary limit for C8 that is 400 times more than what scientists suggest it should be, says EWG. What's worse, it’s planning to wait until a