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New Pollution Danger Is Cited . HrASMNQTON - Uael* llaa'd Wf InvMiigmer of peirt. |oMt* mvi government lately level* will bt mi tt*Mu>(ly for load* contaminated by PCB, I PCI, which Hand* lor polyIdonnatrd biphenyl*. thijpl* u to bocoM* * M)or poUw m. : Dr. Mffiry Pfihbock. director M Ik* dividon *1 peeticidei ol Mo Food and Drug Adminletre- Ms wd other wimlitU b*** bow ill y**r that the chemical li turning up la the -Mktry i on end woirr u MMMly mcreuin# volum*. Tboy ooy tkol It may bo moro tf a haierd to human* and vildlUa than the ee*W*r*i*l poMicide DDT. "Kl OVU tho Ion* haul ay bo tho irouiot problem -........ nd * ho**." ooyo Dr. P. Undwkn. aHocloi* diioctoi ol tht ButMu ol span* PWheri** and Wildlil*. "It may bo thr anaifil problem ol the Bernini a**" >< .JUhbeik l.lmva* lb* lime ln| looming iw: hrn *ute* ma/ 'bo lariad into loabliahin* PCI witty lev*;* !'I load*. U *h*y dan t. it it ..k*ly um ltdtrti ,|**tnun*kt *il( ftp la, ht ! {at hut. |*imnnt*m alt)' I ofol* 1,vt to fivt out bn* moth PCI i> Mining Ik* environmtM amt bun H till there, I Tho oam* ptitili contimti 'fhl M. - Ciiuoical Co. 4| Dr. Harold Pile*, aa aaalytfcal chomiat is char*t ol tho Miehiian Slot* a a o 11 c l d 0 lihoralory, toyi PCI appears - ooairaW hava beta ) PCI it a petroleum deriva tive el bentem, and Ito milieu lor itnirtur* it almoot identical that ol DDT. Aloa Ukt DDT. II Ku leng-lutlng reeiitanee M breakdown and U relatively Inieltiblr in water. - PCI Km bean lewd la be taste to ftoh and other marina Wo and to btrdo and aoimals. trt pmlbt* tang raog* tt*et upaa man baa eat baaa deter- bow PCI lo Win* picked up la Me humen lead <Mta. ,' . end water a* product* la which K ha* boon addrd dtemapea* and axtdit* altar, they ear* Wee ditcardad. Through improved laboratory method*, ceieaUoti now are batter able todiitiogolsh between PCB and DDT than In dm oat. It hat been iwtpeettd that Ml* level* el DDT let ter. lead ware inaccurate Wemwa intone e( the eWmlcak lar.tba rittet w need new," taye Filbbaek, "are tame bench mark* ea the aettm and 6*tribotien al PCI *a Ural edagoata eafaty level* eaa be My*. "V* may hava M el it out than that ha* little. If any. dangeraot effect. On the ether hand, then may W a email . amount ol It with a greet deal al effect." Menrite oey* uo* el PCI heuM W curtailed If h la found to W haiardout. to maa. And. ehould W Mtabll*bad u teeo aopeatIM*. Manciw eaya that Mamasto lo ouppiylag mb* Aroelor materiel* lor laboratory Mot- Tho emopony ala* la etudyiag tho paodbiUty al n*ia* a high ----------*-- Maarater la r coottatoiog PCI. ta addtbw. the tewpan? 1* warning induHntl user* of potential pci hoiarde art '> tryiag ta cell them atker ehemcal* wblck oceampUib rim lar raauli*. On* big urr *1 Kl i> the electric banitarmer in<*.<tr.. Since tho themirel to e cr-' -r. an tdoal tronformer cnHont. oaote *ery eenout pieblvm* u Bte oftctnul tnduatry " Do My* U>at if letge men! Watt tiantformeu ' oealod by Ml Molwd M PCB dioy would W impract.ro- * ktroMo M MM. II tbty wrr* coated by air, he mv*. i` t tramforuten would W u bg Mtf>ab>H*tn|e they e*v.e / claim*. Fiihbacb Mv Chamitat la WWft >d*tr uwd n 'nrtiiM'v at nn oildillVf n 'plnMi1! pmiltnu, priming Inke, t*ln*, ndhi-sivr'* end tlinu. I alt* U uier it a fluid mtuia' tor Hjmi-tti rlrrim-iiy In pawei ' At cmding I* Pithharli. Man lama an fa* htt declined I* I hnw niurh PTk II proand moiVtl* undtr lh( rum* nf Aioclo*. . Comm**( IWpiMmrni Irdlirlol *opimn*d that Mnntonla, i *lr mokrr nf thi dwmi- rtl i" (hi rnumry. dm-tn'l I hnw- '* ill* prndurimn report* with tit* Arpnrintrm. ! Atiwdin* t n*illiriel arili.in'r*, enmin' pimfurtlxn in | il. raamty it kuMretlt of atii- - MONS 031485