There is a long trail of studies, surveys and hidden documents that points to serious toxic effects of the Teflon-chemical on babies.

Johns Hopkins scientists found PFOA and other perfluorinated chemicals in the umbilical cords of 99 percent of 300 babies from the Baltimore area. Another pilot study found that PFOA passes from mother to baby unhindered, meaning it does not decrease in amounts. The latest study has everything but confirmed that this chemical is impacting the most delicate of humans and causing developmental effects. See: New C8 study finds baby developmental problems The Charleston Gazette (West Virginia)

Yet, DuPont already knew 25 years ago that PFOA passes from mother to baby, but didn't bother to tell the public or the EPA. DuPont suspected it could cause birth defects in newborns when its own survey found that two out of seven female workers who worked around PFOA had children with birth defects - an astounding ratio. Twenty years later, DuPont paid the largest civil administrative penalty in EPA's history for not disclosing this and other evidence of PFOA's harmful effects. You have to think DuPont was content with paying that one time fee of $16.5 million when it's making $1 billion every year on PFOA-related products.

The question for consumers and the EPA is: How long does the trail have to be? How long before this product is permanently taken out of our Stainmaster carpets, food packaging and clothing that our children are continuously exposed to?