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APR20W5 irT PCBs Become Major Worry for Environmentalists meiks to be a amjm source. Kleinert said, heraura it cootains 2 pans pe niWon. n - And sack am embargo could af of The Journal Staff fect chube and wHtcfish -- the (anDaMrinog tUrtieillacthee1m96ic0asl.)B.. &ic*hiLeafkceoMmimduegrcaiaa.lly caught fish j nwily nuisance Mips Sobjsrt fa Mm cope* of devices sM to mtu- Last January. Donald ffetf-l ore mounts of the pesticide toa of Chicago. FDA regioaoll DDT in theatmosphere. Today, with quautitites of director, caused a stir by not the virtually endowed DOT ing that many chute m Lake] 4indhng, the amounts of PCB Michigan couM be expectedto in the atmosphere ore growing exceed the FVA'i ao-caMed ae-| The chemical, in fact Has re placed DOT as a major worry for fish managers aroeod the Great Lakes. In some ways it la more wor risome. It appears to be mote widespread than DOT and tioe limit and wnuld he so to seizure. None Has been seized yet nd those tested by FDA in Wiscoasm waters in December I contained only shorn 3 perts | per mrikon. ; even after a lot of investigs- tion it is wxlear exactly how it gets into the warn. , PBCa, or polychlorineted be pbenyls. are of special toottn i The only recent seisms of I Lake Michigaa fish, Hcaiioa said, were salmon caught at piers off Michigan last fall dar ing the spawning ran. They since the US Food and Drug! Ariministraooa has threatened! to keep fid oot of internal?, contain lion, he over said. I# parts per niM ' the fatty parted a fish in which has concentrate. The Wjscsnsin Division of Health has wsnwd thepublic! to limit themstfvi vedi of fab that exceed the talirancc level, and for preg-| aant women to ovoid it sitogMber. An attempt to farther limit consumption of sport ' coaid came wide rep one la a mniti midion daatry. the logic of Waning load - ** 9 poets per ssiMouaadat- if an angler to take borne r 60 pounds of trophy salmon or treU containing 20 parts. ' that be his no The b rt fish. * fish, lire store the PCB*. Tots completed this of t h e Great Lakes fisheries, month by the Wisconsin Dwj laboratory at Ann Arbor. portaseut cf MataraHleauurces how a range to take tiamj Mich, both say dosing off I from 2.97 parts per juUSon hi PCB discharges is the only real | 16 iach fish to 26.7 pwts to solution to the peebiem. 27mdwr . A DNR Grant Lakes Fisher ies Task Force strongly ad vised the need for state and federal legMatfon to control rehaan geumufly do oot go **" sale, me end disposal of lover $ parts per mHIion antd "if it is detuuiinod diet they reach toe 3 pound size. barges casiaot be effective Cotextea Urged ly conttoied by other means.** I The only Pci jnooMfacrara in the US, MspaMto kndustrial hesoert points mat that id-1 though PCB* have been around since 1929. control of use o Chemical Co, vohmtarify difficult become many peoph for use ie dosed water aystems. Now. it I has onfy 96 emtamen buying According to Stanton Kies- Aoapauadsayear.com- inert. DNI chief of aurveri- i tone*. 216 compounds ranging [from oils to crystals esc PCBs. Products run the gamut from Cento box Material electrical fixtures to wire insu-| The Food and Drug Adminis- Istion. draulic vents. vinyl chloride film, hy fluids, sealant*, sol epoxy paint, castings] tratioa in 1971 found that pa perback dtvtom i a cereal for wood or concrete, adhe-1 box contained much PCB. sives and carbonless copy pa Based in part on this. FDA ir. set temporary tolerances lor Penist to Emlummiet food packaging material. Ob ia Like fats DDT. they and penist concentrate in the ettvi-1 jections were filed but no pub lic hearings had been held. Present FDA tolerances are ranmeM for years. 10 perts per million m food What I reedy suspect. Klei- packaging materia! iatended aat says, "h teat a lot of the for lumen food; 2.5 ports in problem is dse to fedout tram! milk and dairy products: S the atmosphere and whet al parts ia poultry; parts in ready exists in plants." eggs; 2 perts in animal feeds The total dlscheige from 32 > and .2 parts in baby foods. wastewater treatment plants, According to Heeltoa. (he to-j including Milwaukee's, showed only 1.96 pounds a day j >S doee likely to be humans in an average taken by diet pos- being discharged, hut 62% of s no immedmu hazard. But! that was from two pulp and the 1 paper mitia that recycle waste paper. Carbonless copy paper markets if they contaia more than $ perts per Million. High levels of PCBs to trout The bigger telmoa and lake and salmon generally are ig trout hauled in by sportsmea nored by sport ftsbewwa be contain far more than that cause they feel they discard HONS 030940