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March' 22. 1978 Jo/ic Materials News. "Page 75 tOXlC MATERIALS NEWS IN BRIEF Cancer control and prevention bps been largely Ignored by National Institutes'of Health,. UCLA .Public Health Dean LeBter Brealow told a national cancer conference re cently, and suggested the government's, cancer prevention program be taken out of Na tional Cancer Institute. "Time after time in the pact 25 years the National Insti tutes of Health has relegated cancer control and disease' control generally to the back vaahes of the. Institutes, failed to seek'adequate funding or take leadership, or literally squeezed It out of the budget,,"-Hreslow said. "Cancer control needs Its-ova strong'advocates.;'" -.> President Carter, meanwhile, has decreed that'April IB .."Cancer Control Month".-- a.designation Intended to.educate people: tq.."take.advantage of available resources to- prevent,.heedless sufferingand death.;,.-Cause and .prevention research remains one of " our highest priorities." -Carter said ^"because prevention offers the beBt hope for ultimate.control .of. cancer-*,-i '*''"T"'..f- ", National. Cancer: Institute hes announced: publication of bioasBay reports on dye pigment dlarylanlllde yellow'and pesticides- methoxychlor, malathlon. and' trlfluralln. Only trlfluralln was found to be carcinogenic in the livers of female mice. All four reports will be available next week from Office of Cancer Communications,.NCI, ethesda,. Md..20014. ..'v-.'-r. \_ = .'..v. d'f ^idally hazardous, an- nuiced. Seshon saidhazard esented, and when these fibers sre released In the sir, they expose repairmen to ightened threats of lung disease and cancer. / Consumer'Product.Safety Commlasion would need additional funding of $5-mlllion Ft> iarplement pending legislation ordering safety rules for cellulose insulation, CPSC Chairman John Byington told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week. Bylngton also noted that if the agency Is required to deal with various chronic haz- tci'cio identified in an emerging National Cancer Institute study, an additional $5loilllon and 50 staff positions will be required. Bylngton B6ked that Congress appro priate $3.4-million more for CPSC than the $44.8-milllon President Carter had vccotojaended in his budget. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has named 11 members to a new standards advisory committee on skin hazards. Committee was formed to identify the occupational exposures in industry which pose e hazard to the skin end to develop a set of guidelines for OSHA to use in drafting a proposed standards on skin hazards. Department of Agriculture's nitrosamlne panel has recommended the department issue a warning that "the.risk of cancer is Increased when fried bacon or the ren dered fst from it are consumed." The panel -called nitrosamines "a potent carcinogen" nod said they-ere consistently found In bacon treated in the home. New Jersey'e Department'of' Environmental Protection has released preliminary re sults of. a statewide groundwater testing program which is examining 500 wells for selected organic compounds, pesticides and metaic. DI5& Commissioner Rocco Ricci said early results show that; water quality. In most.^asSx. is-far better then the Federal drinking water standards-,, although 20 violaticiig webe found out of 250 wells. Almost all of the wells contained- traces of some of the chemicals being sampled, with the majority of well6 contaminated by organic compounds located in heavily populated industrial areas and those contaminated by pesticides more prevalent in agricultural spots. State will similarly test.sir and surface water, DEP said. Justice Department has filed a $20-milllon suit against Outboard Marine Corp.. Waukegan, Mich., charging the firm with discharging 2-million pounds of polychlori nated biphenyls into Waukegan Harbor and Lake Michigan. The government asked the court to order the firm to clean up the accumulated PCBs.. Illinois Attorney General's office has filed suit against Amoco Oil Co., and A'aoco Pipeline Co. in an attempt to recover more than $838,000 in penalties and dam ages from the companies for two spills of xylene last December. The first 6plll oc curred near Danville when a pipeline transporting the petroleum by-product broke, allowing 700,000 gallons of the substance to leak into the Wabash River. The second 6plll happened near Bumrick with only a few hundred gallons escaping, but vapors were ort v(:r.oB Ju the area of. the spill that, local residents had to be evacuated. snpl W * PRODUCED BY FORD