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SMASOTA flX MCMLO TRIUNE P.WJCSO . A /tdilorioln / make HUN l a bd of people. We mow certainly buy* ifee tedtrel entl-iwHutlon won't he led Into making any aueh blunder In Ihe tier ef paper' beard recycling. The (act U. dotages ol phosphates In laundry detergent* bar* contributed fwevJly te the trading ef the country'! surface eaten wilh organic msleHala. EttiwInaUng or greatly reducing the phoapherena content ef liquid waatea la one obvious way to battle pollution and eutrophication ef prechma water raaourcer. 80 governmental unite everywhere began te ban er limit the ue of pheipbalet la cleaning product*. But the US Surgeon Oeneral couple or week* ago made the upsetting tfet*merit that subattlule Ingredient* developed to replace pboephatm "clearly eonaUluie a health baaard" U awallowad. Inhaled or Introduced Into ihe eyee. Wbertupen, to (he aurpriae ef many of u, the Environmental Prauctieu Agency awltehad. EPA had been urging people te atop ualng deter gent! with phMphplri: m euddenly KPA auggeau that are all continue te uae them. New CPA M)i It fawn having the federal geaerwneftt epend an extra half-billion dollar* le help communities build UoatiMirt factUUei to remove the phosphate from waste walen. AgencJei el government, of couth, have no money except whet they extract from taxpayer*. Be whet EPA le raying here -- tnatead ef Idling people le uh ceap and a little elbow |reate -- or encouraging detergent menufaciurere In develop producte klda can ariff er put on cereal if they like --le that we ahoutd go eu putting pheaphaie iaden wait* water late the nation's eewera and then spend extra Wltoua for treatment eperetieM- te try to get ft back out. Firtunataly, a great many cemmunltte* are net awttcbing bwl are going ahead with their phoaphate detergent bam. Ur. Jeeae Sleinfleld, to be aure. hai a respondblUly eurgenn general te guard lb* publlr health, juri mi VlUiam P. Rucktlihaw aa EPA adminleireler hai a duty lo work lor a healthful environ ment Their efforts can and should he complemen tary. It seem* to us ihet In tke light of the Public Keafth Service dtaeweriw. the eurfcon general might have called tor printed warnings on bom of any offending detergents unsafe for internal use nr for wething one'* face. And the KPA braa might well have reacted by urging (eater action to find safe, phosphate-free producte, As K turned out, indeed of koaping pressure .on the chemical companies to product suitable pubriMufee, the federal government hi* fried te giro phosphate detergents a reprieve. Says New Yerk Ctty'e unhappy environmental protection adminlal/sfnr, "The beat newt a polluter can get from govemiMUt la an Invitation lo do nothing, and Uiat'a (ha word (he detergent inrfotfry got." We bring all this up again becauaa now the Food and Drag Administration has Just reported that a problem prison railed PCS has been (riling into tka natloai's market baaketa In pricntially unsafe amounts because seme food poekegeri were using recycled paperboard products containing It. In tbia Inctsnce. FDA efftclala have proceeded senaiMy te find the enure* of the PCB - principally Certain inks and copying paper eoatlnga. it appean. And Ihe Oi* manufacturer of Ihe dangriou* chemleal hai announced that it trill no longer be sold for ua except in closed ayslenu, eo that products thri get te comomrr* ||| not contain II. Perhaps w will be able le avoid any major health hanrd with PCB which is fortunate. Other wise, the way things have been going, we'd prabably have one agency telling as in call off paper recycling rtfrtflet and another one suggesting we develop tkpeniiee prison control corners tv treat PCB victims . ' I' OCT 41971 'Phosphates okay recycled paper NAY gy WttXlAH B. HEAP haunt I WASHINGTON (tlPI) - Fer Wo attend Mm this memo, m Muriry new designed lo Improve the wiirtwom and Stout tba #*ontnow baa WMipacleBy proved a peariric PCte. Hurt far pn .crirxwi- adWftMnyte hove cjiw.j ir.ee damage d tmh .left- it m Moratory rsWmti ar.-wurh harm to hwuet Him* rai bee* proved. ) m pas I < , menace la pittlcberith. barred aa hmtribi- w* lend On fiigl, Hi UA. burgaan Wtt mare (hui ( par'4 per f General Jam L. SriMeld adritad bamaultaa te m PBeafUaie riMagmte riler all, attwurii cteaPledging Oma pfiaaftniai camribPM le labs dateriaraUaa. Iba gemwMHl h anew- raged dMargM makara tar yam* to And MriaUtaita hr pherihriea. 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