Among workers of a chemical factory in Dordrecht are decades long extremely high concentrations of toxic material in the blood. This is apparent from medical examinations that the Dupont factory itself showed.
Toxicologists call the blood values. They find that all employees and former employees medical should be investigated, because there is a good chance that they have suffered health damage. DuPont manufactured from 1967 to 2013 Teflon, the basis for the non-stick coating. It was the potentially poisonous substance C8 used.
Health From confidential documents that this newspaper in your hands, it turns out that the company already in 1980 concerned to the effect on health. Animal testing showed that monkeys and rats got sick of very high concentrations of the substance. Therefore it permitted employees of Dupont regular blood examinations. In it were found large concentrations of C8. But there was still no clarity about the exact consequences on health, and the company went through with the production. Even though it operated internally already in 1997 that C8 a ' toxic substance ' is, it is clear from the pieces.
According to Jacob de Boer, Professor of environmental chemistry and Toxicology at the free University, blood values that from 1981 were measured exceptionally and cause for concern. ,, There is a good chance that people have suffered health damage. ''
Cancer That also says Martin van den Berg, Professor of Toxicology at the University of Utrecht. ,, This is reason enough to those people. On cholesterol, hormone systems, but also on cancer. '' The factory falls under Chemours for 1 year, that does not want to go into the documents. ,, Though we would say that we believe that we always have gone ' responsibly ', according to a spokesman.
Source: http://www.ad.nl/ by: Ingrid De Groot, Peter Groenendijk Photo: Ilse van Driel .
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