[9]The company lists ICI among its other clients. [14]According to the Working Group on the Community’s Right to Know, a 1998 analysis of ten DuPont chemical plants shows that up to seven million people in surrounding communities are at risk from potential worst-case chemical accidents. [58] ENDS (2002) “Hot air” blows gaping hole in emissions trading scheme, ENDS Report 326:25-29.“Functional foods are about marketing, not health” asserts Professor Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition and food studies at New York University “My concern is that functional foods will distract people from eating healthy diets and encourage companies to market absurd products as health foods because they contain one or another single nutrient.”[18]One of the scientists that DuPont funds is David B. Baker who is based at Heidelburg College in Tiffin, Ohio. Those details, however, usually determine how effective new laws and regulations will be.” According to Doyle, the company has exerted substantial influence over key pieces of environmental protection legislation in the US, such as the Clean Water Act, the Toxic Substances Control Act and the Oil Spill Prevention Act. For example it produced a poster for schools titled “Less is More — Learning About Source Reduction,” but neglected to mention its own dumping problem. [111]Once banned in the US in the 1980s, DuPont exported TEL to other countries where it was not banned. When TEL was pulled off the market, DuPont ran a series of advertisements in Life magazine, and managed to reverse the decision after a hearing in which it called TEL an “apparent Gift of God”. [46] DuPont was recently fined $1.89 million by the US EPA for shipping pesticides on 380 occasions, without adequate labelling specifying that protective eyewear should be used when handling the product. As HCFCs and HFCs began to be criticised for their environmental effects, DuPont once again launched a multi-pronged strategy to ensure weak regulation and a distant phase-out. [121]1-800-441-7515 (US callers only)Curtis Moore, Multinational Monitor, 3/1990[64]DuPont has an appalling pollution record and is responsible for the production of a wide range of polluting chemicals. [110]Research & Development: More than 40 research and development and customer service labs in the United States, and more than 35 labs in 11 other countries. [53][14] RAFI (2000) The mouse that roared on animal farm: Canadian courts rule that mammals can be a patented invention, 10/8/02,You can find Corporate Watch articles on DuPont and our 2002 Company Profile in the right hand column of this page.Twenty-eight cases are also pending against DuPont in the State Court in Broward County, Florida. As a result, more than 400 lawsuits were filed against the company in 21 states. Many of these industry areas are problematic, such as its agriculture division, Dupont Pioneer, makes and sells hybrid seed and genetically modified seed.