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(--'CCJtiLtAi At-iX , /<. /' '?/* fce.: 1Q0 cubic centimeters ot whole oiood. , .*,'small Mineral PI'Jmeiils Corporation '''factory in BeiUville--which makes ronsiUeriiuiy ..... ; r.tam level'most health experts con pigments for coloring paint, Ink, pta*;- - sider a danger line lot lead absorp-. .,{.\tk ad cement--complained to stale- . kutiiorllies about what he thought was . lion. "Above 80 microdrams," explained Dr. J*Julian Chisholm, assoct- ' lead poisoning from dust in lha plant. ato professor of pediatrics at John* - Twice that year, Maryland health ''Inspector* went to the factory to in*' v v**tl*m But each time, according to . ( State records, company 01'ticiali shut-', j down potentially dusty operations and ' the ipspectors were unftbU to me**- _ {/, ur for lead contamination. ' ./ -V ; ' This year, ' Clarence Wolfe, a pale- - caunt-lookins worker t' Mineral !' Pigments. which now has a different Jj- owner, also complained of symptom* /. """of lead poisoning. "I'm always tired. run down. I don't have any energy r,` 'i * or anything.- the 43-year-old. worker -. : * ; ' '.r.'-fr- !' : "There's times, out there, it's terri-' 3?** bio,".Wolfe said.of the.dust in an la--- - ^N'tecvtew earlier .this Summer. 'Ive . Hopkins -University Medical - School . and a nationally recognised expert on ; - lead disease, ''the risk o{ serious' . symptom* of lead poisoning Incrctse* dramatically.'*. - . *' During the last few years, stile and .... federal pftlctajs have,ben aware of a. . . problem at Mineral. PlsmenU, Yel '- deadlines for-correcting it have been.' I; set and reset repeatedly.'. . 'V^; . - *:* -..'Once again,/authorities-.afe-investi- '.. dating Mioeral.-PliimtnU. The history. la tangled and,;. tp some. soveramant safety ottlcialt, troubling:. .'..C ' - 1 "It's not * good, storyJ' said Morion Corn/assistant, secretary.ot Labor for/ .tho.ObcupaUoasl Safety .and- Health Attmlnistration,-. (OSHAk He.',termed ..'-seen it Uke a fog around here.'. -.. 1',' ; r;'y..:.."...r..~.....v..... - *-Lf . . \ Is Linked taLiver Cancer 'v '^Lr * i'v; A; y Morton Mints 1 ^ .< . akin eruptioh,.ind digestive and men- y strual disorders; Some infants born to l, . ^.;C0LD SPUING HARBOR. N.V.. Sept : IJ--A .toxic' industrial. chemical (ball recently-was found In the milk of os *' it tT tested American pursing mothers . `v* was linked to liver cancer ip tautens , vfcttms had PCBs Ja Ihelr liwues *t} * 1 ;blith, and also, had, severs skin disco* . ' -tlocations* ' t, .** v. . PCBs,.extremely stable chemieals, are used in electrical enuipmonk ' j paints^ printing Ink, adhesives and . /'today by a feeding Japaaese idealist ' other products; They have been used (: - > The chemical, polychlorinated hi* - widely for 45 years but wera not ra* " phenyls (PCBs), is beiieved to bo area yarded ss ' environmental. contactl- .' ..- enfio the fatty tissue of nearly every , -nintt until 1(166. ... ^ person in the- United: States, Japan .* ' ', Jh, Tjkcshi' Hiroyima, a specialist ', 7' and possibly other industrialised -. In tracing the causes of- human die- - - *.countries.'`iM <v e*e.ai: Nio-.Nalivnal Cancer Center ,.. /'//The association of PCD* withhW,, : ' ltnearch Institute- in .Tokyo, told an " V man liver, cancer--which la- always fa*:; j,- international conference on rawer el '4vtal-generally.within a year--devet* VCold Soring llnihor laboratory that' , :^>opad (rom an episode in which about", five of (he, Yutho victlmt died of Mvrr ' r 1,000persona in Ywbo, Japan, aver a ^period of a few weeks in lwi, ate rtev ' '.'/cancer within'five years alter uftllng.'., - rontaminairvl r.-vokinu oil. This II;:- r ` ^oil neelilentally conlaminatrd with a - lues out to n nU nf MX i>#r iiai.iam, ' L'/ totul of o & to 6,o iitanu of rctis. ,;* , "rampared wilh.lhrcxpri-h-d rale oi Ji , Varying, but apparently extremely - \7. Ugh. amaubls -of PCPi pvreivled In 'lYaomeedtheviotUa*'bodies. Many-still : A'report.icfatlgue,. headaches. : fever,. ...per IIKMNHS. .__: ..' ... ' ; \' ffiteyuinA, in nri lulnvicw later, uild.' thsi . the-. auocialiun to-lwmi . -PCBs and liver rpAcer wav definite In " r^taouglM, nvmbncpMn lha.limbs, severe.. ':V-V ' j 'See.'PCb,A4,'CeL3, /`"'".'.r/ MOOS 036634 i w I------------------------------------- ----!--------- -------------------- Study LinksPCB To Liver Cancer ''`V L PCB, FromAl ' ' two mu and possible or probable In the remaining thru.. Tha two definite casi aloha tranilato Iota a rata six times hi|her '' than normal/while-all flvn -cases traiulaia Into a 10-told higher incidence, ha said. . Wnyems'-s presentation followed-a raport ' by pathologist Jamas R. Alloa of tha Untver ' ally of Wisconsin, who warned that "any level" of Ijamsn sxposure to PCBs "may ba IbJuiIous . to human health." ,, . ; . / 'The Yuaho rates--raiatorcad by. data an ' brain changes la mookays and other adreno effects la animals cited by Allen--soggiat a "high, possibility" ibel- PCB* ceased the liver cancers, Hirayama ssM.. r . -/ , . As for tha hundreds of millions af poiaeaa ' "who.have ingested roach smaller emeunts of ' PCBi. mainly In' their feed. .Hirayama said, ` *1 am concerned about tha Inpllcatiens for .people everywhere ./There .la no cuettien ' the problem la serioua.?** . ''Although Hirayama previously Hod report ed the liver cancer risk eaieuiatloas in Ja- ' paiutkey earns, as a surprise to savsral at* taadlni scientists who.specialise in causes af . .environmental cancer. . - * HlHyama's dlsdosura '*( ant of tho most worrisome sots of data that wo have recently seen." said one af those scientists. Dr. Irving J. Saukoff of the How* Sinai School of Medicine (altar York City. , .. The Environmental Protection Agency re- ' coolly reported that PCBs had bean found in teals of milk of mothers who live In 10 stales. ,EPA and Department of Hoalth/ Education . 'and Waifart-officials have sot Sept 23 for a meeting with obstetrician* and pediatricians about bow to advise mothers about breast . feedlnf. : 'i. , The concentration of PCBs In Use mothers* milk fit wsa highest,. 104 parts per million, in a Micblnn woman, while it averaart 1.4 P(im la II Virginia women. Overall, the aver Be woe 1.7 ppm. . ' . The tampwrary maximum aliuwrd by thr ' I'ood and lliug Administration la n ;i pimr for infant and Junior food, but ia 2.3 ppm-' for eow*a milk on grocer's shelves. . ' * 4 In recent studies reported by, pathuiauial Allen, female monkeys that consumed' PCHs at a.rotn.nl Ik ppm had a*ur*s.hither.roncantratiaaa up tp If ppm-- in theie milk . fat-Exposed tp thin "severe toxicity/Atleri- aaM. thalr broeotfod. infanta developed skin discatamtten. acne, tooe of eyelashes. and welling and eongoitIon ofthe eyelids... ,. Tho Infants Improved when weaned ftanv mSk containing PCBs. but. Alton said, *' * ISIS suite Showed that "behavioral and '' teaming deficits" had persisted for at least' a year and may Utt continue ..... ., \ 4 4 Allan' raeailad that the flrat. indkattan UtatPCBc may be linked to' cancer same . from a Japanese study of miee In .1171- In. a study of rats reported tn 1P79, M per eent of PCB-ted rats davatoped apparently msllg'naat liver growth*./? ; / i.,-: ;.V ; Hot yot knowing of Hirayema's cakula- ' lions of the human liver cancer increase at1 Yushe, Allan baaed hla eoneam that PCBs may be carcinogens oil animal data, saying.. There are enty suggestions'that a higher Incidence ef cancer ocecrs In nersoni ex- HONS 036635