SCIENCE PANEL WANTS INDEPENDENT C-8 STUDY ON DUPONT WORKERS

(11/17/2006)

A science panel wants an independent study of DuPont workers regarding the effects of the now controversial chemical C-8, produced at the Washington Works, Wood County Plant. DuPont has done its own studies on death rates among workers at the plant, saying its studies prove C-8 has no definitive link to human disease. The three-member science panel says it wants to study occurrence of disease rather than just death among workers. The panel was created as part of a 2005 court settlement between DuPont and residents who say the company contaminated their drinking water. Plaintiffs in the case filed a motion yesterday in Wood County Circuit Court asking Judge Arthur Gustke to order DuPont to allow the science panel to conduct a study of about 5,000 workers at the plant. DuPont maintains no harm has been done to the community health or company employees by their long-term production of C-8, used in the manufacture of Teflon.

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