It was Sue’s job to pump it out back, where it would flow directly into the river.ĭuPont tried to blame Sue for her son’s birth defects. The Teflon production process left behind a discharge of water. The cylinders would bubble over like an out-of-control bubble bath, according to the film. Her job involved working in a large room with huge cylinders filled with C8. Sue’s work for DuPont required her to come in direct contact with C8. Her son, William Bailey, aka Bucky, was born with half of a nose, one nostril, a serrated eyelid and a keyhole pupil where his iris and retina were detached. One of those stories is that of Sue Bailey, a former DuPont employee who gave birth to a son with severe deformities. The film features stories from a number of people who were affected by DuPont’s Teflon, including DuPont employees, children and adults in the surrounding community, as well as pets, livestock and wildlife. But that didn’t stop DuPont from dumping the toxic chemical into local waterways, where it made its way into public drinking water and subsequently sickened thousands of people, and ultimately killing many of them.ģM and DuPont covered up the health risks of C8 The chemical, also known as PFOS or PFOA, is what gave Teflon its non-stick properties.īoth 3M and DuPont were well aware of the health hazards associated with C8.
One of the key ingredients in DuPont’s Teflon was C8, a toxic, man-made chemical created by Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, better known as 3M, to make Scotchgard. It all began in 1945, when DuPont, renamed DowDuPont following its 2017 merger with Dow Chemical, began manufacturing Teflon, a product best known for its use in non-stick cookware, but also widely used in a variety of other consumer products, including waterproof clothing and furniture, food packaging, self-cleaning ovens, airplanes and cars. The film shows how the chemicals used to make Teflon poisoned people and the environment-not just in Parkersburg, West Virginia, where DuPont had a Teflon plant, but all over the world. Petition for Scientists, Lawyers, and Policy ExpertsĪ new Netflix documentary titled, “ The Devil We Know,” tells the story of DuPont’s decades-long cover-up of the harm caused by chemicals used to make its popular non-stick Teflon™ products.
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