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DS Cameron, Brussels Juno 30th, 1970 PCB ' S osc as WB Pspageorge, St. Douia Fy t __ e v), i f A GD Xngenthron, Brussels) KB Vodden, Ruabon Attached is a clipping taken from a recant iasue of the Timea. I have not yet teen a copy of the first issue of the new journal "^nvirgiMnental Pollution", but when I do so, I shall sand you one. ' You will remember that when we visited the Honks wood people in Hay they told us they would be using this journal for the publication of the results of their study on PCB residues in various British birds. DS Cameron Enel. (1) MONS 09950,; Diana pagjno controls toe pnvlueiion a\ a frittortfico--the nun 7. derived from tbe firet reft i f.itum ship which ded j.,*rn Argenttou to Fnmce in Jtikl'and w;i\celled Frigorifique - owned by her {ether. In fniionfu-ns, meat is prided, tested lot discus, cut, pecked nnd made icdy for eaportDuma n. involved in every wage id this proceiw. " It it exciting work ;snd I don't know any other girt doing it. 1 have boyfriend who i% -he owner of a fngonfico and we can talk about things like carcase* end offal, where** girl would just a is: 'Mow interesting \ and arrange* booking* on the ships, aod dtNcusMi any problems people might have with Fitting, temperature, or even damaged storage cartoot. She m used to seeing animals being vtaupbtered, and it no longer upset* her ea it did at first She first beemn* interested in the work while a score.ary at another large packing plant. So kbe decided to train for the production *dr of the frdustry. and for three years learnt how to recognize and prepare cuts of meat. " Now ] am j-tad that I'm iovolved in managing part of the c ountry's principal preferred, living on the estancit to-Cving In Buenos Aircv and went there > much a, pusMbfc, was ob* iously impressed with the social life oi the Capita.. She mentioned the exclusive Jookey Oub. :'ounood 73 `year* ago. Membership is 60 a year, and this inoudes the wife nnd child ren under 11 Many of the Biiiish community there are among the 3,000 members. and one or their swimming pools i* for the exclusive use of race horses. The other woman regarded her ostaocia a* rather like, a hippie oortvnune, with every ('ll try to meet women who fee! tbc tame wav as I do in that we can investigate the prob'ei"- oi vomen ", she v.*ys. *' I don't thin \ that problc nv there ire an > dilkreni from ihos* iinvwhcr else in the world- -lb* ma;n one. 1 ft:!. i facing the opposition of men when t> omen Man to estajlivh themselves as women in iher own tight" She (eels women get a raw deal iu society, but that they will have to be pushed into taking some action. " We do not have enough nutwr} schools, women never have Honk 1 was a little strange. industry." body Joining in the work. economic independence, and " lTtey imagine that this it a Argeotim ha* a cattle poou* She drove there in a large girls are presumed into marry dirty industry. end this pfaee lation of S! million, producing lurry--it was-24 hour* away by ing early. Many a.e made to feel would be eovered with bone*, blood end fet. They don't roali/e how hygienic and modem it is. and how we are subject to 2 1 million tons of beef a year. Of this, 90 per east is for home consumption--the people eat an average of Just about half a road but her husband owned an aeroplane--and hod designed all (ho surrounding garden. She bred hones, knew all the unhappy if they are not mem.'d by 23. These are the sort of thiegs 1 hope to he able to iuvesligatc." the tnol stringent nilee regard- pound of beef a day each--and workers' nemds end woe faeos* Her husband, a researcher, inn olenltnou.H the remaining 20 per cent ia natorf by all their superstitions. agrees, and bes often defended Thd plant he* a capacity to exported. Of this, five per cant One man driving past one day the causa of women. prepare cuts of meat from about comas to Britain. was amazed to see her in fuH However. Argentine women KOOcnrcuvsene day. using 70 wot- The cuttle are reared and gauebo costume riding round*he have solved one problem--thr Ur* in the morning* and 90 in fattened on the country's 400.000 stancia, and once an old man "piU" is available at anv the evenings. The slaughtering esiaociav, enormous rmtwhes on of 99 came aod auked for work. chemist without doctor's pre is done near by. and carcase* i he vast plains of (he Pampas MWt gave him accommodation scription. As Mrsl Simpecn brought in a xpotbasly dear ares, which covers almost a and be sow looks after the trjes said; " You can tend your chil* lorry to the plant, cut into quar- quarter of a million square miles --and we look after him." dren out to buy it for you* y it it n Science Report nru i ^--t*. 21* iUMX mo i . y it POLLUTION TW* Is fonuoate, hacauec P.C.B.I of * lounud called Environment*! last- than a tenth as tea* to hitd* { (the (arm standi for polychlorinated biphenyls) are used in numerous Pollution, indicate that birds from s wide range of habitats through as D.D.T., which in turn i* about a / tenth as toxic as dieldun. ...--* industrial applications tod would out Britaio contain small quantities Aho. tha population decline of Chemical absorbed probably be far more oosdy to restrict thao most pesticides. They find their way into the environment through Ibe smoke aod effluent from factorise aod the exhaust from aircraft engine*, of rtli io (hair tissues. Worst affected are lake and river tyde from the Midlands, test and south of England, some of which con tained up to 900 port* per raiilioo in their Uvers. birds such it the peregrine falcon anc the tponww bewk ooincidatf ia space and time with die ietroductinn of aldrtn, dietdrin end hsrpteehlor. in the mid>l99th. wlicreae by birdsI l t f1 Hy Nuuue Times News Service Muds in most region* aod hainui-. of Britain carry small amount' nf ihc indminal chemical known as P.C'.B.s in then body i issues, acocrdiog to ait cxlcitMvc survey carried out at the Monk* Wood experimental station. But the chemical has probably accounted for fairjyfew deaths in the wild, although it niy\ HiifH-d* bleeding success. Ibe Bret sign at P.C.B.s la wild life woe found ia (he eerly 1990s whn chromatOfrsm " peaks " of an unknown chemical were ootioed in bird tissues being Analyzed (or D.D.T. Four years ago the peek was identified ns being due to P.C.B.S. Since then the eggs and tissues of birds in many parti of Britain have been collected, foe measurement of their P.C.S.s con The ubiquity of-the chemical suggest* that, like tbe organochlorine pesticides, they are rosistint to Batura) monos of degrada tion. Another dmflarrty is that they accumulate in the body (it, so pre datory birds at the top of food chain., arc the most at risk. In general the quantities of P.C-B.'t are of the same order of magnnude as the residues 01 D.D.T. in biid tent. Ian Prestt. D. J. Jefferies and (issue. - " Could the P.C.B.* have caused N. W. Moore, scientist* si the \ ihc damage lo wild life, particularly Monks Wood experimental sta birds >f prey, that hna been attri tion. have completed an analysis of buted to the o'gano-chlormc pesti more than 300 livers and eggs col- cide* ? The Monks Wood scientists leased between IPttand. 9. Tbe rule <hu out because leading experi mulls, resorted in the t.rU issue ments have -howo that P.C.B.'s are P.C.Bj probably entetad she en vironment in the IMUs. Although the P.B.i may not have caused ^ny Midden p^muteiitm crash, it is hard to rots out more ins.dimtA. sub-lethal effect-. In fait, there 'i- C.'I'V evidvffvi to suggcM ihat PA'.B.s muy be partly re>p.ms<blc for the widesr>re.,l breed ing failure among bird.' <l pi.-v that has oevum-d im.i the <a>l in Europe and the tinned Swte^ Source : Envronoenlal Pohiil-on Vo! I. P. 3, I970. Eistver Pubitihiog Co. v)Natwre-lMMw >cni 1979. HONS 099503