, a US-based multi-national chemicals and health care company, agreed in 2004 to make some safety modifications and investigate the potential link between the use of C-8 and the alleged after effects, funding medical monitoring programs and installing new water treatment systems. The litigation was eventually consolidated in federal court in Columbus, Ohio, where both DuPont and Chemours, an American chemical company that was founded in July 2015 as a spin-off from DuPont, collectively continued to be blamed for the leak.