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Timeline: GenX Study Results


 

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The information on this web page is presented for general information purposes only, and not intended as scientific authority or medical advice.

The information was summarized from the reports of “substantial risk of injury to health or the environment” produced by DuPont and filed with the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) concerning GenX.

 


2006-04-07
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rats in 1963 study
Side effects:
○  Convulsive deaths
○
  Enlarged livers
○  Degenerative changes in pancreas

2007-10-30
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rabbit and mice
Side effects:
○  Deaths
○  Eye damage
○  Dermal effects
○
  Lethargy, cool to touch
○  Reduction of body weight

2008-02-20
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  mice
Side effects:
○  Increased liver weight

2008-05-23
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rats
Side effects:
○  Increased kidney and liver weights
○  Hypertrophy of liver
○  Decreases in red blood cell mass parameters

 

2008-12-05
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  daphnia magna (water fleas)
Side effects:
○  Deaths
○  Reproductive effects

2009-05-12
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rats (inhaled substance)
Side effects:
○  Body weight losses
○  Pathology effects
○  Respiratory effects
○  Death

2009-09-16
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rats
Side effects:
○  Deaths
○  Lesions on kidneys, stomach, bladder, and thymus
○  Heart and spinal cord issues
○  Increased kidney / liver weight
○  Hepatocellular hypertrophy
○  Decreased red blood cell mass
○  Anemia

 

2009-12-29
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  mice
Side effects:
○  Increased kidney, liver, and adrenal weights
○  Liver hypertrophy
○  Pathology differences

2010-02-05
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  mice
Side effects:
○  Early fetal delivery
○  Lower fetal weight
○  Increased kidney and liver weight

2010-03-15
Study results to EPA

The test substance was not biodegradable.

2010-03-18
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  northern bobwhite quail
Side effects:
○  Lesions on feet and head
○  Reduction in embryo viability

2010-07-15
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  mice
Side effects:
○  Increase in body weights
○  Increased food consumption
○  Increased kidney and liver weight
○  Lower offspring weights

2010-07-20
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rats
Side effects:
○  Death
○  Increased kidney and liver weight
○  Lower fetal weight
○  Early fetal delivery
○  Hepatocellular hypertrophy

2010-10-29
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rainbow trout
Side effects:
○  Various effects on hatching, growth, and survival

2011-01-18
Study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  mice
Side effects:
○  Increase in gross white areas in liver
○  Hepatocellular hypertrophy
○  Increased kidney and liver weights
○  Liver lesions
○  Lower plasma levels

2013-01-08
2-year study results to EPA

Subject animal(s):  rats
Side effects:
○  Tumors in pancreas, testes, and liver
○  
Increased liver weight, degeneration, and necrosis
○  Adverse effects on kidney, stomach, and tongue

 


 
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