“…Expressing an apparent concern, DuPont transferred seven pregnant women off the Teflon line for a brief period and began sampling the umbilical cord blood of workers' newborns, discovering that PFAS crossed the placenta [24]. Tests of older children, aged 4-6, revealed PFOA blood levels more than 50 times the average [25]. When confronted with these findings, 3M spokesman Sean Lynch stated: "While the science behind PFAS is complex, the weight of scientific evidence does not show that PFOS or PFOA, two types of PFAS, cause harm in people at current or past levels" [25], a blatant lie.…”