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26 July, 2005
Affiliate USW has launched an awareness campaign aimed at management and workers of 200 North American paper mills on the use of Zonyl, a chemical made by DuPont. Zonyl is a fluorinated telomer that breaks down into C8, a suspected carcinogen now being investigated by the US Environmental Protection Agency.
USW is surveying 1,200 local unions in its paper sector to determine the prevalence of Zonyl in paper mills. DuPont recently settled a US$108 million class action lawsuit over the chemical filed by citizens in the states of West Virginia and Ohio for contamination of water supplies.