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PARKERSBURG, W.Va. (AP) - Researchers will ask 200 Ohio and West Virginia residents to participate in a new health study to determine how long a chemical used to produce Teflon remains in their bodies.
Randomly selected residents who receive their drinking water from the Lubeck Public Service District in West Virginia and Little Hocking Water Association in Ohio will be asked to submit blood samples over the next four years, according to a court-appointed science panel charged with studying possible health affects caused by the chemical ammonium perfluorooctanoate, known as C8.
The study announced Monday is one of 10 being conducted as a follow-up to a health screening of up to 70,000 Mid-Ohio Valley residents who were part of a class-action lawsuit that claimed C8 releases from DuPont Co.'s Washington Works Plant contaminated their water supplies.
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