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BLOOMINGTON, IND. HERALD TIMES SUN. 31.000 SEP 5 1976 , Evidence mounts At the probe or polychlorinated biphenali And it makes all the moi Important (PCBs) growt across thecountry more Intensified research in and around Bloom damaging evidence is surfacing. ington and Monroe County to learn more Mobil Corp. announced recently that 7 of IS workers who were exposed to PCBs from IMS to 1958 at Its Paulsboro, N.J. refinery developed cancer. Six have died and Mobil saw two of the deaths are attributable to PCBs which the company used at the time. sagJpo., the nation's only producer} about the levels of contamination. The movement towards halting the use of PCBs is gaining. One Industry report in dicates that within 18 to 22 months the conversion to substitutes for PCBs will be complete and the discharge in the interim will be significantly reduced. This won't, however, provide the answers Its, reveals in a yet unpublished} to the gnawing questions causing so many a that an abnormally high number of| in this area considerable agony. ' ceased workers have died of lung What are the levels ol danger? What can . . ^ or can't be consumed? Just how dangerous a report from the Department of Healtha, situation is It? How can the danger be Education and Welfare last week starteedduced? . that PCBs were found It) mothers' milk hi Halting the use of PCBs won't answer tests in 10 different states. these questions. It will only provide some And two researchers from South Daktfta measure of protection for those ol a lUture State University, Yvonne and Algirdas generation. Greichus, told an American Chemical Only intensive research will provide Society convention that PCBs have shown these answers, research that Is agonisingly up in dangerous quantities in such unlikely slow in getting started at the federal and aces as lakes near South Africa's state level where the initiative will have to artebeestqortDam. come because only the agencies at those e: These reports don't do anything to ease the tear and anxiety of Bloomington area residents who have been exposed to PCBs. two levels have the facilities, the expertise and the. manpower to conduct the nec- cessary tests. - > ' I MQNS 036629