What is the EPAs involvement in the issues surrounding PFOA?
EPA began investigating PFOA because it was being found at very low levels both in the environment and in the blood of the general U.S. population, and it caused developmental and other adverse effects in laboratory animals. The U.S. EPA’s Science Advisory Board classified PFOA as a “likely human carcinogen” in 2006 and announced a long-term, voluntary program with eight major companies to reduce PFOA emissions and to eliminate PFOA use in products by the year 2015.(Source: U.S.
