May 30, 2007 - St. Paul, Minn. — The PFCs are also contaminating water supplies in other parts of the country, including West Virginia and Ohio, near a DuPont production plant that manufactured the chemicals.
Officials with the Environmental Protection Agency and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention met with more than 100 people in Minnesota Wednesday, including state lawmakers, government researchers and environmental groups.
Many in the audience said they were pleased to finally hear from the agencies. But some were also frustrated with the pace of the federal response.
The EPA's Mary Dominiak began her talk by warning the audience that they were not going to hear any definitive answers from the federal agency on human health risks from PFC exposure -- even though the EPA has been investigating the stain and water-resistant chemicals for the past seven years.
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