Via America’s Lawyer: Disturbing new findings point to over a hundred everyday makeup products that have been contaminated with PFAS toxins. Attorney Sara Papantonio joins Mike Papantonio to break down how both regulators and manufacturers are to blame for these dangerous "forever chemicals" making their way into a laundry list of items being sold on store shelves.

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We've discussed on this show, how PFAS toxins have made their way into our drinking water. And now we're seeing reports that these forever toxins are contaminating makeup products that are still being sold on store shelves. I have Sara Papantonio with me to talk about this product, this product and this story. You've worked on this PFAS project for awhile. You understand this case very well. I, when I saw this, that women are putting this on their face every day, that's absorbed through the skin and regulatory is just like kicking the can down the road. What's your take on this story?
Right and in order to understand this story, you got to understand just how potent of a toxin this is. PFAS is what we call the forever chemical. That's what we've labeled it in, in pop culture as. And what that means is that it's bio-persistent, it stays in the blood. It's bio-accumulative, it accumulates the more you get and it's bio-active. So it reacts with the organs. And so that's what these people are putting onto their eyes, their face, their makeup, and the skin is the largest organ in the body. It's absorbing it. And finally, we've got the courage and the commitment to do something about it. But the fact of the matter is, what this boils down to, is we have known PFAS is dangerous for decades and the FDA and regulators and government are just finally standing up and saying, okay, we'll, we'll take it out of your cosmetics.
Sara, I look at a case like this, the hesitation always seems to be, they have political influence. Okay. There's people at the top that are on boards. They're on government regulatory agencies. They stop it cold. You're familiar with the case tried up in the Ohio river valley. They made a movie out of it, The Devil We Know. That was only the edge of the story. And still we have regulatory dragging their feet on this product. How are these products used? Give me some examples of these cosmetics.
The, the, the fact of the matter is these are in every, PFAS is an everyday products. It's used to create water resistance. So it's in makeup, it's in waterproof eye liner, eye shadow and all, all the, it's everywhere. And so, like you said, the regulatory industry, what they're doing now is they're, they're lifting their hands and saying, hey, look, we're going to create legislation that takes this out of cosmetic products. But instead of being proactive, we're constantly being reactive. The fact of the matter is if we would have known about this, if we would have taken it out of our products decades ago, you would have protected an entire generation from this.
You've seen the documents, you saw how bad the documents were in the 1960s, 1970s, monkeys were dying, all the monkeys were dying in the test. Beagles were dying, all the beagles were dying. Rats were dying. And as you know, I just took the deposition of the general counsel for 3M, who is making this product. And so at what point you say this wasn't a mistake? That there was some intent involved. Just talk about that just, just a little bit.
It, it absolutely wasn't a mistake. Like you said, we, 3M the company that manufacturers 90% of this chemical has known for decades. Since the, at least the eighties, that this is a bio-persistent drug that is not going to leave the body anytime soon. And that it's going to react with the body.
Okay.

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