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Facts About PFASs

3M no longer manufactures PFOA and PFOS.

3M made the decision to voluntarily discontinue the manufacture of PFOA and PFOS. This phase-out action was announced in May 2000 and was substantially completed by 2002. 3M does not currently make PFOA or PFOS.

The levels of PFOA and PFOS typically found in the environment and blood of the general population cause no harm to human health.

There are hundreds of scientific studies relating to PFOS and PFOA. The evidence does not establish that exposure to PFOA and PFOS at the levels typically found in the environment and blood of the general population causes adverse human health effects.

Levels of long-chain PFASs in the environment and humans are declining.

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Reduced exposure to PFASs is demonstrated by a series of studies conducted over the past 15 years, which measured those compounds in the blood of the U.S. general population. Two different studies have collected and published data in this area – the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and a survey of American Red Cross blood donors. As the charts above indicate, blood levels of PFASs have declined dramatically since 2000.

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