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3M, the company that originally developed PFOS and PFOA, has known for a very long time that these toxic and persistent chemicals were in our food.

The evidence of widespread sludge contamination comes just days after a Food and Drug Administration study revealed that PFAS chemicals were also found in food.

Decades after Dupont and 3M first discovered that the perfluorinated chemicals making them fortunes could be transmitted from mothers to babies, millions of women around the world are passing dangerous amounts of these toxic compounds to their children, according to a reportpublished on Monday.