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P-1 Taft/ Taft Stettinius & Hollister LLP eet, Suite 1800 /Cincinnati, Ohio 45202-395/ / lei: 513.381.2838 /Fax 513 381 0205 / www.taftlaw.com Cincinnati / Columbus / Cleveland / Dayton / Covington Robert A. Bilott 513-357-9638 bilott@taftlaw.com ^ / C ^?-3 8 o5 January 28, 2008 FEDERAL EXPRESS M. Cathy Fehrenbacher USEPA Headquarters Ariel Rios Building 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Mail Code: 7406M Washington, DC 20460 Timothy H. Begley Supervisory Chemist FDA Harvey W. Wiley Building 5100 Paint Branch Parkway Mail Stop HFS-245 College Park, MD 20740 Patricia Bittner Program Analyst CPSC Headquarters Office Of International and Intergovernmental Affairs 4330 East West Highway, Suite 505 Bethesda, MD 20814 Re: PFOA From Cookware Dear Ms. Fehrenbacher, Mr. Begley, and Ms. Bittner: In 2003 and 2004, E.l. 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 Perfluorocarbon Polymers" (for DuPont, July 1979) (EID11216365); {W 1 181692.1} CONTAINS NO CBI P-2 January 28, 2008 Page 2 "Migration and Extraction of Emulsifiers From PTFE Coated Frying Pans" (CIVO (for DuPont), September 1988) (EID112160-62); DuPont Internal E-Mail Re: December C-8 PACE Team Meetings (DuPont, December 1996)(EID093165); "Personal Summary of Meeting About C-8 in PTFE Parts For Food Application on 6 December 1996 in Geneva" (DuPont December 1996)(EID751391-93); ' Results of DuPont s Analysis of C-8 In Flostaflon Tubes" (DuPont January 1997)(EID751385-90); ' "Perfluorochemicals: Potential Sources of and Migration From Food Packaging" (Begley, et al., October 2005); Letter from Prof. Tateo to DuPont (Univ. Milan, July 2006)(013-0007788); "Quantitation of Gas-Phase Perfluoroalkyl Surfactants and Fluorotelomer Alcohols Released from Nonstick Cookware and Microwave Popcorn Bags" (Sinclair, et al., 2007); Nonstick Pans are OK in New Tests" (Consumer Reports June 2007)' and ' ' Identification of Perfluorooctanoic Acid Release from Commercial Coated Cooking Pans by Liquid Chromotagraphy Coupled to Electrospray Ionization Tandem Mass Spectrometry" (Bononi and Tateo, 2007). ----V ery truly yours, RAB:mdm Enclosures / ^s - Robert A. Bilott