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The C8 Health Project, Bookmar and the Science Panel

C-8 Health Project

Brookmar, Inc. was appointed by the Wood County Circuit Court as part of the Settlement Agreement in a class action lawsuit, Leach, et al. v. E. I. DuPont de Nemours and Company to conduct the C-8 Health Project. The purpose of the C-8 Health Project was to collect health data from Class Members of the lawsuit through written questionnaires and a battery of blood tests, including a test to ascertain the amount of C-8 in the blood. The C-8 Health Project began testing on July 27, 2005.

The Science Panel was also appointed by the Wood County Circuit Court as a part of the Settlement Agreement. The Science Panel, as part of the Community Study, will examine and analyze the health data collected by Brookmar in order to determine whether the data suggest that C-8 exposure is related to disease.

Brookmar, Inc. has completed the gathering of data for the C-8 Health Project. All non-identifiable health data from the Project will be delivered to the Science Panel for the completion of a Community Study. Identifiable health data will be released to the Science Panel for those Participants who gave additional specific consents. Statistical data is being released to the public via the WVU/Brookmar data hosting project; follow links on left for website address.