com slash dark history and click begin visit then use the code dark history at sign up and you'll get NUMBER_TOKEN off your dermatology visit that's apostrophe SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN dot com dark history and use code dark history to get your dermatology visit for NUMBER_TOKEN off i want to say a big thank you to apostrophe for sponsoring today's episode and now let's get back to the story now remember teflon super iconic invention that made your food not stick to your pan groundbreaking well in order to make teflon you need the magic chemical pfoa and dupont began using more and more pfoa they were educated on the specific ways in which to dispose chemical like they're supposed to incinerate it or they were supposed to send it off to a specific chemical waste facility who then properly disposes it yeah trying to get rid of waste is like a whole process so yeah they were told this and of course there's that warning section at the bottom you know when they're getting their education on that says like hey this chemical shouldn't be flushed away into water or sewers but like nobody reads that far though you know anyway so with all this information was found within the documents dupont sent raw which also were revealing that dupont chemical had been pumping hundreds of thousands of pounds of pfoa powder from their parkersburg facility into the ohio river and not only that they had been pumping it into the river for decades yeah just putting it in the river cool so what happens when a company pumps out that kind of like substance and it mixes with the water well the tainted water goes through the pumps and lands into pits normally these pits would be lined for some protection but the parkersburg pits were not well when there's like no protection down in the pit the water then becomes one with the ground the ground the land it absorbs the water and then when the tainted water from dupont chemicals sat in those pits it was absorbed right into the ground baby and it sank right into the local water supply the drinking water supply for over a hundred thousand people in west virginia now for rob the lawyer this case went from the tenant family and their sad cows to now something that like affected a whole lot more people than they expected it was clear that dupont chemical had all these instructions telling them how to get rid of pfoa properly and they just didn't follow them but rob then found records showing dupont chemical had done their own funded top secret medical study on pfoa and its effects on people for NUMBER_TOKEN years they know a lot according to their own study dupont knew that pfoa could increase the size of liver in rats rabbits and dogs they knew that their parkersburg employee had high concentrations of pfoa in their blood oh and they decided not to tell the epa or anyone about it no they're too busy dupont knew pfoa could cause birth defects in rats they ran tests on their employees children yeah yeah that's right they tested on children and they determined that two of seven live births resulted in eye defects by NUMBER_TOKEN dupont chemical had an internal safety limit for pfoa concentration in water dupont felt they knew how much could safely be in drinking water based on their own
START_SPONSOR_TOKEN com slash dark history and click begin visit then use the code dark history at sign up and you'll get NUMBER_TOKEN off your dermatology visit that's apostrophe SHORT_HYPHENATED_TOKEN dot com dark history and use code dark history to get your dermatology visit for NUMBER_TOKEN off i want to say a big thank you to apostrophe for sponsoring today's episode and now let's get back to the story END_SPONSOR_TOKEN