Document 6B2KRLmQOY4JDnympNV28dqqo

4' - OIL, PAINT & DRUG REPORTER, Nov. 8, 1971 DDT, PCBs Found in Atlantic Ocean Plants, Animals ^ Scientists have found concentrations of line data for the stady of marine pollution of copying paper. DDT and PCB are man DDT in most specimens, and polychlori as part of the environmental quality pro made and do not occur in nature. nated biphenyls (PCB) in practically all gram of the IDOE. The research was conducted by Drs. specimens of plants and animals they collected on extensive cruises throughout the Atlantic Ocean. Plants and animals sampled include Sargassum weed, zooplankton, dying Ash, triggerftsh, dolphin-fish, sharks, and many animals, including small Ashes, that daily George R. Harvey, Vaughn T. Bowen and Richard H. Backus, of Woods Hole Ocea nographic Iastitntioc; and Dr. George D. Grice, now of the National Science Foun The cruises, by vessels of the Woods migrate from the surface to as deep as dation. - Hole Oceanographic Institution, were part 3,000 feet. Information shout the research results of the continuing US program for the Polychlorinated biphenyls are used as was presented at the seventh session of the International Decade of Ocean Explora sn Insulator in electrical capacitors, as Intergovernmental Oceanographic Com tion tlODE). transformer oil, a heating medium, plas mission (IOC>, meeting in Paris, as part Scientists aboard the vessels were con ticizer, and are present in hydraulic of the first formal announcement to the ducting projects designed to obtain base fluids, lubricating oils and in certain types ' international scientific community of the United States IDOE program. Representatives of the seventy-two member countries of the IOC. an organiza tion within the United Nations Educa tional, Scientific & Cultural Organization (UNESCO), concluded a two-week meeting last Saturday (November 6). Copies to: C. P. Cunningham Announcement of the program at the IOC meeting was made by Dr. Thomas B. Owen, assistant director of national and W. R. Corey International programs of the National Science Foundation. The NSF is lead John Mason agency for the IDOE effort in the United W. B. Papageorge States. The IDOE was first proposed by Presi H. S. Bergen E. P. Wheeler dent Johnson in Xanh Iffifi. In December of that year, the United Nations endorsed the idea of a coordinated leag-range pro ^P. S. Park gram of oceanographic research and formally welcomed the proposed IDOE Sam Pickard aa an important element ^ P.J.A. Marsh-Brussels E. V. John NOV 11 1971 HONS 069880