Originally published February 26 2006
Scientists study effects of Teflon on newborn babies
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reports on new research that is trying to prove the relationship between a Teflon chemical known as PFOA and birth defects in newborn babies.
There is new cause for concern over the chemical used to make Teflon and other stain resistant products.
The chemical, known as PFOA, is already found in the blood of most Americans.
Now, CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson reported on The Early Show, scientists are studying whether it is harming newborn babies.
Now, new research from Johns Hopkins Hospital has found that PFOA is showing up in the umbilical cord blood of 99 percent of newborn babies tested over five months.
No one knows exactly how the chemical gets into the bloodstream, but Sue Bailey believes PFOA is why her son has severe facial defects.
He was born in the 1980s, when she worked around PFOA chemicals at Dupont and she remembers a Dupont doctor calling her shortly after the birth.
"He was asking all these questions, wanting to know what the deformity was," Bailey told Attkisson.
"I asked him why he needed to know that and he told me that any time there was a birth defect or a deformity they had to know all about it because it had to be reported.
The Environmental Protection Agency says Dupont sat on that information and other substantial risks to humans for 20 years, according to Attkisson.
The company recently agreed to the largest EPA fine in history, $16.5 million.
Bailey's son just turned 25 and has had 30 plastic surgeries to repair his facial defects.
Dupont says there's no proof PFOA caused Bailey's defects or any other problems, but Attkisson says the claim gives added urgency to a recent announcement by the EPA that Dupont will slash most use of PFOA-related chemicals within four years and halt it altogether by 2015.
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