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a. PlansI 1^ `ft JC1 i! Limit sn New . .. Toxin T iULrest Substance Is Indium'. Finns. 'Similar to DDT Face Charges ...-------------HV JOHN inCI.EAN ...I........BY CASKV BUKPO ' '{CMtitt tmmh m> hnMt) ' lEnvironment Editor J .1.. . WASHINGTON, Feb, }3-!' The United States govern- -Before Summer, the Food and ment filed pollution charges ' Drug Administration will set i yesterday gainst two East tolerance level for e new en-' Chicago, companies, based on- virenmentnl threat ceiled PCB, evidence gathered by e eitiien ; substance similar to DOT In environmental action group. -structure, R hsa been learned. [ ^ * *** t'm< weh . Dr. Charfoe C- Eduards, com- ch"3 " against tnUsioner of Um TDA, said in m*Jr lndniUT ,n ***' /' an Interview that the level prob- *rB *"?!*** ** * re#uK clu` . ably will be S carls car million wri wUwV . 1~V 1ST `%-Ej; |7~; ~ ' John r. Flynn, assistant ` Jini hlaur currant tovol UnHed St!,tw * ffvT"** R.. , criminal Informations against * J*nTM f#r DDT ** Blew-Knex Ce., Hllh street - and Railroad avenue. East CM . The proper *> *t TC9 c3g9t 4pJ lhc SJoh9 0.< Ccf?> * iNdyviiiuriiiaiwt Wu'uvnyi- t rft*ncrj', K*i Indlssspclis b!vd., tlaoU in Mnnnfaetnring ' East Chicago. KBs art widely used Iwkie-1 violate tm Act ' . trial contpeonria, marketed to Tho companies are charged ; Wted *W * with rlolallng the tW Rivers' trade name Areclar. PCBi are aMj Hwbora Act by polluting /\ wed In th+ manufacture of the Indiana harbor canal with-* . ' - paint, plestlca and postietdea. &A a pormh from the Army' . PCB reside# has been found in carps of Engineers. r flih and wi'dMe tissues to this] photographs and water tarn-! , country and to Europe. ' j pits qt 'no pollution wore eol*! *TMs la a new and separata iccted AprU n, 1170, by pervariation of the DDT story," ] fpu who later formed tho la- J - * said Richard Rook. head of tho dependant CUiscna Water Pol- ,FDA guidelines saetlon. ' lution Research, Inc., s non-1 The TDA la conducting a, pgtft corporatlen censtatl-g of study of PCCa to direovor how; u members who th e In Ham-, tesrfe they are. ' Not as Widespread j mend, Crown Paint, end High (fond, ltd. -PCB* are not m wMoinrrad' " Svl" lh"> ' ' n Mr* art My ms>- M ho; * as toxic,' Itonk said. .In eaaea:; ICnMdiianlnya. tannid r|th#Is obvieut the of aorta pofto^lDg they appear | d(W mit #boM, taW wil. as teste as DDT. ho added. (|jjMn Walden Jr., Jt, e< 5J? **Ths wunswered Ruoetlen is. Greenbrier Lane. Hammond, - whotber they take a part. In: president ef the eitlten peup. 'ehromesome break* and thatia. ' oiler* Help la Oiher* j what we'are tryfag to deter-: The group a* farmed to . mine." Rmik raid. 'June, IOTA, tn provide an ' Th;*e other devetupmenta in tgev.ey vher i(itu enn the PCH atiuy aro oecttrrlng' gel hrlp in Kfontiflc analyls ' right sow: -of polhitVm sample*. , i. pc Department of A;rl-"tVe'rc offering an .`.llcrnn- cuRyre Is tvMing poultry nv'rivo to exlutot resulitnry ttonwidc fur PCUi, iiymcks." saht Wald.-n. **C*- ' ' 2. SvivwijM haw fw,.| IVJI. r.-iu (>vl r.o .'it<<f;ie:ien have t ":u mtkUto-n f.iv D'.;'C,U-.rw tft w are |C<tRl!nit-'.l .i n.t'jc I. .If ! f('<m'iiiu>-<t r I. ft.:I MQNS 033484 s ' FDA Flam Limits on New Toxin Peril (Continu'd from first pegel I| graphs, the method used to de- < terrains Uin makeup of animat and six reviewing data on tho tissue. Until a year ago, it ap presence of DDT. pears, DDT and PCD amounts 3. Other studies are tinder uere added together and given way by tho government and ns amounts of DDT. private industry into the toxic The first systematic work in effects of K!Bs. U. S. to differentiate between The PDA action has been DDT and PCB was dono at (he prompted in part by tho find* tag of high levels of PCBs to Patuxent Wildlife Research cen ter in Laurel, MD., a laboratory of the Interior Department's 130,000 chickens from the state bureau of sport fisheries and of New York last month. wildllfo. | prmptsNatlonal Check Mistaken for DDT This find by the Department A study published there last of Agriculture hsi prompted March showed tow PCB had the nationwide check. So far, been mistaken for DDT in two PCBs havo not turned up in bald eagle carcasses. Bald high-level quantities to other eagles found dead are sent to places. . ` Patuxent for analysis. * In New York, tto levels The impetus for tho Patux found to testing ranged from ent study was a report by O.S p.p.m. to 90 p.p.ra. The Agrietthure Department imme European scientists in 1M7 dlt* dosing POP in wildlife tissues. A sepsn.'e study of (to cf* diately asked Uw FDA iv* a foots of PCB on fist* muter tolerance level. It was agreed way by the fish and wildlife S p.p.m. would be taken as a service at tto Fisb-Peaticido temporary-action level. Research Laboratory in Colum "We definitely feet this was bia, Mo. V an Isolated ca^e and anything 30 PER CE.NT DIE . on the market Is probably .good," said Dr. Kenneth Me* Karoo, deputy administrator of the Agriculture Deport* ment'a meat end poultry Inspec One tost showed that SO per cent of a study group of cat fish died within 18 days when, kept ta water with io micro grams per liter of a PCB form tion division. ulation. Tito chickens involved in the Swedish research workers New York caso have been Im have shown that as mony as pounded by their purchaser, 114 different PCBs are pos- the Campbell Soup co. lible. . Could Occur ta Storage The sole U. S. manufacturer, I Government scientists hasardfd a guess tint the Incident may have been caused by ex posure of the chickens' feed to paint containing PCBs. which Monsanto Co., has agreed with j the government in the future tt will sell PCBs only tor use to etosod systems, such as! electrical transformers. -i I could occur 1q a storage bin. . In addition to wear and (weathering of products; cotv liataing PCBs. scientists ssy | PCBs are spread thruout tho jenvironment by industrial |watc9 and by burning trash which contains PCBs on city 1 dumps. \ . Beth PCB and DDT appear at the same point to speeto- l MONS 033485