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oSS8?SSU I 0. 45.344 I / 0*1 . ^ I AAartha Angle And Robert Walters ', ' Persistent, Prevalent PCBs I ..V i - . > |t< T , WASHINGTON (NEA) - With company La destroying the mat ' apologia to composer Woody from 28,000 more chickens,. all 1 Gothno, here's now line for one purchased from the Idaho firm. i of the country'! bat-known folk In Richmond. Utah, PCS traces Food products confiscated, de stroyed- or banned tw federal offidals because of PCB cowlamination diacovered In the ion|i: " "From the redwood have been found in 73,000 frosen torutt to the Gulf Strum water*. cakes that also must be de- Ihi* land Is soaked with PCB." - Itroytd. ' FCB* ere polychlorinated In BUUngs, Mont., federal urly l70s Include the following: more than . 400.000 eggs Virginia and North 380,000 pounds of turkey roll in biphenyl*, a family 'of loaic. halth officials have converged on South Carolina. 80.000 turkeys hi ' highly peraialent induatHal chem a hog processing firm whose Minnesota and 300,000 nure-- la ical* that have earned liver mat meal byproduct is suspected Maine, New. York and North 1 damage and birth defecte in of being the source of the most Carolina. laboratory animal*. recent. outbreak of widespread The redwood fbruia apan the PCB contamination. There's more. New York's Hudson River. Alabama's - aouthem ceaat of Oregon, where The gbvernment investigation streams and Lake Michigan ware a commercial baitary recently already encompasses most of the found to have such high levels ef diacovered that It had purchased country's northwest: quadrant PCBs that fishing in thaw waters and now mu*t 'deatroy -- 50.000 because the Montana company was banned. Milk rnutamlnahan PCB-conlaminatad egga. mils 100.000 to 300,000 pounds* hu been reported In West The Gulf Stream water* waah animal feed weekly throughout Virginia and GMo. the west coeat of Florida, where Washington. Oregon. Montana,' Meanwhile,: the company that a chemist recently found a Idaho, Minnesota, North Dakota was the stria U.S. products and marked decline in the potential and South Dakota. markstar of PCBs for almost half fertility of young ' men that The Florida experience, de a century Is busily propaganda- , appured. to be related in part to scribed at the mid-September Ing the public about the raid and PCB traces found hi the subjects' annual meeting of the American imagined gloria of induetriel , ipann. ' Chemical Society, led researchers chemicals. '< TMa month's reports' of" PCB to conclude that 23 percent of a contamination aren't limited : to group of male callage students finTahlely MhoaniuundtlolspCroe. deuf eStLlewleaaiat I them two - statu. In Franklin. Involved in the (tudy suffered Idaho, a poultry company la In from functional sterility. the process of destroying more Other (dentists reported at the than 300,000 contaminated American Chemical Society con chickens and more than 1 million, vention that Cons of, PCBs tall from the air each year Into the I Great Lakes. - PCB* (sold under the Aradar I trade name) in the autamn ef 1077 - but not until It had produced enough of the lade liquid to float an entire navy. - . . . Monsanto hu claimed hi recant rare that it always wu con cerned about the dangers pood by PCB* and "hu made every effort" to keep the public ks- . formed about the hasarda. .. But when the Ural of PCBs wu first disclosed in the early 1070s, Monsanto denigrated thou revelations as more "political charges and sensational hsadHnu' HONS 00889 7 reporting." ,- cThe company now hu mounted an ambitious and tapanalse advertising campaign dtiignad to demonstrate that chemicals are valuable. If not indispensable, to i modern life. ; Monsanto's: ubiquitous televi sion commtrdtl* - aatat the - vlrtuu of chemical* ranging from . praservativu to firengbttng compounds. Never mentioned, however, is the product that wU haunt the nation for many decades to crane -- PCBs.