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P. Taft! Taft Stettnrnus & Hollister LLP 425 V^ alnut Street, Si ;,te 1800 1Cu~unnaii, Ohio 45202-3957 / lel : 513 .381 .2838 /Fax 513 381 n2 0 5 1 :~w :^ .taftlati^ .com Cincinnati { Columbus / Cleveland / Dayton ( Covington ROBERT A . BILOT T 513-357-9638 bilott@taftlaw .com Janua ry 28, 2008 FEDERAL EXPRES S M . Cathy Fehrenbacher Patricia Bittner USEPA Headqua rters Program Analyst Ariel Rios Building CPSC Headquarters 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Office Of International and Mail Code: 7406M Intergovernmental Affairs Washington, DC 20460 4330 East West Highway, Suite 50 5 Bethesda, MD 20814 Timothy H . Begle y Superviso ry Chemist FD A Harvey W . Wiley Building 5100 Paint Branch Parkway Mail Stop HFS-24 5 College Park, MD 20740 ' Re : PFOA From Cookware Dear Ms . Fehrenbacher, Mr . Begley, and Ms . Bittner : In 2003 and 2004, E .I . du Pont de Nemours and Company ("DuPont") publicly released data that it claimed demonstrated the lack of any PFOA released from Tefloncoated cookware . Because it is not clear whether earlier and later data relating to similar types of testing also has been submitted by DuPont to your agencies, we are enclosing the following documents for inclusion in USEPA's Administrative Record 226, USEPA's Docket OPPT-2003-0012, USEPA's TSCA 8(e) Files, and for any other applicable USEPA, FDA, or CPSC files: 1 . "Determination of Possible Residues of Monomers and C8-Emulsifier in Various Pe rfluorocarbon Polymers" (for DuPont, July 1979) (EID11216365) ; (W1181692 .1) CONTAINS NO CBI p. 2 January 28, 2008 Page 2 2 . "Migration and Extraction of Emulsifiers From PTFE Coated F ry ing Pans" (CIVO (for DuPont), September 1988) (EID112160-62) ; 3. DuPont Internal E-Mail Re : December C-8 PACE Team Meetings (DuPont, December 1996)(EID093165) ; 4 . "Personal Summa ry of Meeting About C-8 in PTFE Pa rts For Food Application on 6 December 1996 in Geneva" (DuPont, December 1996) (E I D751391-93) ; 5. "Results of DuPont's Analysis of C-8 In Hostaflon Tubes" (DuPont, Janua ry 1997)(EID751385-90) ; 6 . "Perfluorochemicals : Potential Sources of and Migration From Food Packaging" (Begley, et al ., October 2005) ; 7. Letter from Prof . Tateo to DuPont (Univ . Milan, July 2006)(013-0007788) ; 8 . "Quantitation of Gas-Phase Perfluoroalkyl Su rfactants and Fluorotelomer Alcohols Released from Nonstick Cookware and Microwave Popcorn Bags" (Sinclair, et al ., 2007) ; 9. "Nonstick Pans are OK in New Tests" (Consumer Repo rts, June 2007): an d 10. "Identification of Perfluorooctanoic Acid Release from Commercial Coated Cooking Pans by Liquid Chromotagraphy Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectromet ry" (Bononi and Tateo, 2007) . RAB :mdm Enclosures _ --Very truly yours, ~ ;. .~ ~~__ k ~ __ !- - Robe rt A. Bilott