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sandy creek, n. y. NEWS W. 2,000 AUG 13 /5 ' State Says Salmon in Lake Contain a Toxic Chemical Consumer! were warned River because federal and PCB, a toxic chemical util* State DEC Commissioner Og last Thursday not to eat atate researchers had die- (zed in a wide range of menu* den R. Reid and State Health salmon from Lake Ontario or covered that the fish contain factoring processes, Commissioner Dr. Robert P. striped bass from the Hudson dangerously high amounts of The warning was issued by Whelan, the New York Time* laid recently, The salmon taken out of Lake Ontario had levels of between IS and .20 parts per million of PCB. DEC said. Polychlorinated Biphently. The board said the PCB known at PCB. has baen in ' use since 1930 In the manu contamination "is of long standing concern In the Great Lakes .system" , and that the facture of plastics, paints, electrical transformers, orinting Ink. caulking com- PCB body burden In many valuable Great Lakes fish oounds and hydraulic fluids. In recent years the state species exceeds the present U S, Food end Drug Admin has stocked Lake Ontariowith millions of coho salmon, and istration level. PCB is similar In molecu heavy catches have been reoorted. particularly in the lar structure lo DDT end is Pulaski section. not readily soluble in water but highly soluble In fats. Testing by DBCs Rome laboratory on the salmon was Like DDT. It is a chlori nated hydrocarbon, the dang oerformed at the eastern end of Lake Ontario, a spokesman ers of which were voiced by in Albany said this morning. the late Rachel Carson In The spokesman said based the early nineteen sixties. But on the information DEC had not until the last five years received as a result of the has a broad spectrum within the scientific community testing the PCBa found in the samplings would not pose begun to warn of PCBa perils. a threat to the overall salmon It haa alraady been banned in orogram, which began in the Canada and Britain. Fall of 1968. and will continue. In the United States, where it is manufactured only by the M-onsanto Chemical Company federal standards aay that any food containing more than five parts per million of PCB la unsafe to eat. According to the spokes man. a statewide study la being made by DEC of all fish in the waters, in addi tion to the samplings In which the PCB was discovered Meanwhile, the Greet Lekoa Water Quality Board in Wind sor, Ont., hss recommended that the International Joint Commission urge Its respec tive governments to begin na tional public discussions on the contamination of tha an* vironment by PCBa and the consequences of strictly con trolling the sale, use and dit- HONS 030867 * oosal of PCBs.