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The transcript is from a segment of the show Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, where he talks about the dangers of a class of chemicals called PFAS, which are used in many consumer products and have been linked to serious health problems. He exposes how companies like DuPont and 3M have known about the risks for decades, but have continued to use and dump PFAS without proper regulation or disclosure. He also shows how PFAS are widespread in the environment and in people's blood, and how difficult it is to remove them or find alternatives. He calls for legislation to limit the use of PFAS to only essential items, and to regulate them as a whole class of chemicals. He ends the segment with a parody of an ad for Teflon, one of the products that contains PFAS.
Here are the key facts extracted from the text:
1. **PFAS** stands for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.
2. PFAS are used in products like **Gore-Tex** and **Teflon**.
3. They create surfaces that don't get stuff stuck to them.
4. High exposures to PFAS have been linked to health issues like high cholesterol, ulcerative colitis, pregnancy-induced hypertension, thyroid disease, testicular and kidney cancer, and decreased response to vaccines.
5. PFAS are known as **forever chemicals** due to their long lifetimes in the environment.
6. A chemical engineer stated that if he were cremated, he would be a fluorochemical hazardous source due to a Teflon mesh used in his hernia repair.
7. 3M started selling C8 in 1951 to DuPont for Teflon production.
8. DuPont knew that PFAS accumulated in humans and animals and did not degrade in the environment.
9. Ingestion of PFAS caused birth defects in rats according to 3M's findings in 1981.
10. DuPont found eye defects in children of employees exposed to PFAS but did not make this public.
11. 3M warned DuPont not to put PFAS in waterways.
12. Epidemiologists found higher rates of kidney and testicular cancers in residents near a DuPont plant with C8-contaminated drinking water.
13. Workers handling PFAS daily suffered from diseases like ulcerative colitis and rectal cancer.
14. PFAS can bioaccumulate in the body over time.
15. A CDC study found C8 in the blood of 99.7% of Americans.
16. Companies like Wolverine used PFAS in waterproof products like Hush Puppies.
17. The EPA's acceptable level for PFAS in drinking water is 70 parts per trillion.
18. DuPont settled a class-action lawsuit over C8 dumping and agreed to phase out its use but switched to another type of PFAS called Gen X.
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