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WATERWAYS

Pittsburgh Tribune - July 2, 2006

When production of Rolling Rock Beer begins next month at an Anheuser-Busch plant in Newark, N.J., we wonder whether the company will remove the moniker "It comes from the mountain springs to you" from the bottles and cans.

The United Steelworkers Union recently complained that samples of tap water from two homes, the public library and a local business in Parlin, N.J., less than 20 miles from the AB plant were found to contain trace levels of perfluoroctanoic acid (PFOA), a chemical used to make Teflon and other products. PFOS, a related perfluorochemical, was found in tap water and stream samples.

The USW took samples in May as part of an investigation into PFOA contaminated sites across the country. The USW has discovered elevated levels of PFOA in the blood of its members and other workers at DuPont plants.

The steelworkers are asking the New Jersey Department of Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to conduct a full investigation at the site in Parlin, including the monitoring of groundwater and wastewater discharges.

PFOA was determined a "likely" human carcinogen by EPA's Science Advisory Board in January. In April, a lawsuit was filed against DuPont due to PFOA contamination from its plant in Deepwater, N.J.

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