The chemical PFOA, used in Teflon production, led to significant health problems, including birth defects, in communities near DuPont factories.

“pfoa which is one of the compounds used to make Teflon for a long time wasn't regulated and a huge you know multinational conglomerate du Pont along with 3m they were just like pumping you know products out using this stuff because a nonstick pan to make eggs with back when non-stick pans first came out I mean it was like a dream for anybody you know who was was a homebody you know to have a pan that like you can cook eggs on and they wouldn't stick they started pumping the stuff into the water of these like local communities where the DuPont factories were where they were making this stuff the people that were exposed to him in the factories were developing all kinds of you know their offspring had all kinds of birth defects”