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July 29, 3971 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-----HOUSE II 7445 r!ty health flle1M In a two-prongcd ntLack f.a'K'ad-pfilnt. poisoning. Otic part, of the program would detect and treat, children sxiffcring lead-paint poisoning. Vie second port would amend the horising rode U> require eHminavlon of lesd-tonsed p.Uul- from use In housing, Only no death from lead-paint poisoning has been recorded In the city In recent years, but oJhoJnlK fear that hundreds of children may ho suITerlng from IS* effects. A study by tho Pulton Control Center Of Children**! ii'v.piiai or two d(Mn Homewood Urushton {I'DDj^ii'nt found that n fourth of them had * tiiutj'crouH level ol lead in their sy&tems. 'Vive rcKvirnltteo adopted a throe-point reswhich provides for: \ (:>.\nw.t>nlUG to Usgin dinning no-lena : ismomlmronls to Iho housing and hdtvilh estimated 500 who arc bo sick they should bo hospltaiisr-ed right away, they said The current screening procedure Is op erated out of a mobile testing facility, com munity aides knock on doors In tho neighbor hood and 3k parents to bring their children to the trailer for vesting. The test Jnvolvos drawing blood from the arm Into a small con - vainer which U taken to the city's testing lab or where vhe blood Is tested for Its lend level.---wafhfn&tcm jPaX. May 28, 1571. ' - WISCONSIN Lend polonlng among inner city children hftM become so severe 4n Milwaukee, that Children's Hospital has established a special ollnio to provide improved diagnosis, treat ment and aftercare of lend poisoning victims. i`ll -i-l-i--e---i-lkl`K tliittiltlildlirrffcc'ull dllliSeti!i ffrfo6mm iiee&&ttfi jfoiKOlilfigi and hi 3070, close to 50 youngster* were Commission oh Product Safety, the Council on Environmental Quality, and tho Environmental Protection Agency t*> tako specific actions to protect the Amer ican people as well aa fish, wildlife, poultry, and livestock from the hazards of FOB'S. ; Yet in an almost unprecedented dis play of callous disregard for the safety or our citizens, that action was not forth coming. The results are now tragically apparent. . And despite the unfortunate lesson of this massive PCB contamination of poul try, the Federal bureaucracy still has not ?/,?}! jy!ln?i.1RrSw rS* tdre. Tiife fallal c Of tho Fedoi al Oovem* >.x"AL ' a a application for federal funding to car- .k mu a lead*palftt removal program In exlet- , fi housing! . Exploration of setting up a fund to give t pt>or home owner* low-interest loans to r- mini their homos with ho-lcad palnL^-FJffs- \ Cm,rph Prats, May 7, 1973, ' ' ' VrnOlNIA treated for tho poisoning. Nono have died, but an undetermined number have been left mentally retarded or otherwise brAln dam aged. Lend polnoning has also boon found among racing drivers and mechanics. Several year* ago, a Milwaukee surgeon. Ur. Michael A Folaoek. medical director of the Wisconsin Auto found abnormally high amounts . merit in this entire flatter is both shock ing and inexcusable. In view of the unconscionable neglect on tho part of the executive branch, the Congress must now act. I have introduced legislation--H.R, 10085--to prohibit the interstate dis tribution of FCB's. And I urge that the ' The Norfolk IxAd Control Program is the first one to ho funded under a new set of j knr.RebSed oommmitly guidelines drawn up ; b>- U>e Public tfoaltb Servloe and also is { the first comprehenc4v load-poisonbig proj- . rri In the nation. v The profrftm Involves initial ecreening tucoMires conducted by health department 1 *uvnr a* well as a eommunitywldc project to 1 marshal support end Interest In combatting lend poiKotiing at the neighborhood level. \ The Scad program start have already spoken t some 800 people, Such as VTA groups, to 4 pinko them aware Of tho lend problom. The program is headquartered In the ' Berkeley Model City Neighborhood Center and nrccrdlng to program coordinator Arlo Von Cokrr, he and his staff have collected more than 75 paint samples from homes tl-;;:phout tho city. Working through a list c ".dren treated for lend poisoning at 'Itnqr* Daughter Children's Hospital in and names supplied toy city-wide oiintca. raker said that In moat Instances, as many i* half of the samples collected come back, positive for lead. ,, "Most load poiaonlng cases that we've found are In black neighborhoods where the of lead in the blood teats of two nationally appropriate congressional committees known drivers who had been hospitalized immediately undertake a full and ex for burns. After this discovery, Holacek took blood samples from 85 driver*, mechanics and driver-mechanics during a week of racs. Mora than one-third had high amounts or lend: a had such high levels that poisoning would be expected; they also had poisoning haustive investigation, not only of the current massive contamination of poul try and the need for Federal legislation to control this deadly chemical, but also into the indefensible failure of Federal symptoms, including abdominal pain, consti agencies to take the necessary actions pation, nausea, muscle weakness and dh&ti- which would have prevented tills Inci ness. ' Upon investigating the three poisoned rac ing members. x>r. Richard D. Stewart, chair man ol environmental medicine at the Medi cal College of Wisconsin, round that the lead dent. At this point I include an article by Hank Burchard which appeared in the July 29 Washington Fast detailing the lxi the blood ol drivers and driver-mechanics extent of the current problem. I also in was unrelated to breathing fumes from lead clude a July 29 Washington Evening Star ed gasoline or exhaust. Instead, it was b- ' * sorbed through the skin when team mem bers dismantled engines and washed the parts In kerosene. Contract driver*, who merely drove the car*, had normal .blood levels of lead. But article by John Fialka. on PCB's, The articles follow* IFrom tb Washington (D.c.) Post, July 29, 19711 Millions of Chickzns TAiirreo drivers who also worked on the engines * <*. <By Hank Burchard) sometimes had high blood lead level. Indi cating that lend poisoning might be a con tributing cause of race ct-ashee.--JVf*ig.<mA:ce jror?mr,otb'er a, 1070. . ^ The Agriculture Department conceded yes terday that millions of chickens fed on Ash meal contaminated with a DDT-llke ctxeminal have been sold in ctoreG in tho Wash- older deteriorating homes are," Coker said. n area and much of the rest of the 11* noted that moat or these older and d.e' pCB'S--THE HEED FOR CONGEES- krlorstliig homos are in th Berkley, Sunt- oTi-vw*T Ar^ririv . ersvillc, Brambioton and East Ghent arca^or Etry. . b chemical, `polychlorinated biphenyl* the Jty which are Model city areas. A rcs. utfi'^RYAN poked and was given "per ^frcB), leaked into fish meat produced at a cent survey of homes in the city showed that ovor 80 peroent of all dwelling units built prior to lf>30 were in these four areas. Flf Ly-threo poroent of all the City's aubstandard housing is located In these areas,'* ' mission t- o ext end- -hi-s remark* s at.-.t.h.is point izi the Record and. to include ex traneous matter.) Mr. RYAN, Mr. Speaker, the XJ.S. De Wilmington. N.O.. plant between April ao and mid-July. From thoro it was widely dis tributed to poultry growers and hog raisers, mixed into up to BOO.ODO tons of feed. Borne 35 mill ion broiling ohlokena alone are Coker added.-- (.Norfolk} Virginia-PMoi, partment of Aeriiculture conceded yester- sent to market each week from the 18 states October lfl, 1870, February as, 1071. * day that millions of chickens fed on fish where feed containing the llsh meal was wabiiwoton, p.e. ' The Community Health Services Adminis tration. under a *204,15*1 grant from the* Model Ciller Commlnsion, is conducting a nmKr. tenting of children in a section of the inner city for lend poisoning. Of the 3TD tested so far, ftvo have had to bo hospitalised. Another 30 children havo a higher concen tration of lead in their eystems than 1b con sidered safe. These havo bean referred to hos pitals and neighborhood health clinics for treatment on an outpatient basis. meal contaminated with a dangerous chcmi cal--polychlorinated hlphci^yl-- FOB--have reached the marketplace and In turn consumers* market baskets. Th e'poLcn Mai consequences of this con tamination arc stacacring. But just as dismaying is the fact that Mils Incident could have been prevented if Federal agencies had lived up to their responsi bilities to protect the public health and welfare. sold. Eow many of those chickens consumed the contaminated feed and how much PCB was In their flesh When aold "cannot be known," Dr. Clayton Yeutlcr, chlcr of Agri culture's ConHuinor and Marketing Survey, aaid yesterday. Last Friday, Dr. Fred Fullerton of Agricul ture's Goiviumor and. Marketing Sarvloo which had withhold announcement or the FOB affair for a week, said there was "no evidence that any contaminated chickens have reached any consumer." Health officials soy they would like to test 31,000 children between tho ages of one and six from th model cities area; the total pop ulation of the area is about 80,000. The of ficials estimate that the city has about &,ooo--about 10 percent of the 50,000 who live In old and dilapidated houses--who have higher lovcis of lead in their bodies than are For 2 years, I have Urged the appro priate Federal agencies to take specific protective measures that would have safeguarded the public from the hazards of PCB's, During that time I have called upon tho Department of Agriculture, the Dr. Yflutisr explained 'the apparent con tradiction this way: "There was no statement that chickens fed on the contaminated fish meal had not reached the market. The statement was that there was uo evidence--and `there ami l* n__one...--.....t..h....at a...n...y......o...f....t..h...e.......m...a_rk_etewd c__h_i_ckens Deportment of interior* the Food and 1 mcomnttaoineodonm&focreereFdOaBccethpatanblethbey 8thepagrotevepnea-r considered safe. Of that 8.000, there a* an Drug AdminlatrotlocL. the Fresident's meat.'* -t l 0501512 o STLCOPCB4044754 H.7446 `. . - .' * CONGRESSIONAL RECORD -- HOUSE * . July 29, 1971 Asked if thnr vm any videnoe that onto Company, the nation's tole manufac chicken* containing more than & p.p.m. bad turer of FCBs, hoe been quietly moving vari not been mtvrxmod. Dr. Yeutter Mid an ta> iiouuccmcnt cm ib results of field tests would be modo by th department today. 2xx any case, Or, -yeutter o!d. "no chickens fed contaminated mriu are on the market now and none will -be released for murkel." Asked If the came could be said for frozen chickens and chicken meat used in the pro duction or soups, hot dc and other foods. Dr. Vcutier referred the question to Dr, Fullerton, who could not he reached yester day afternoon or last night. The effects of Pcb upon humans, if any, ous produote containing it oiT the market. By last August, according to 'William B. P&pageorge, manager of environment pro tection for' Monsanto, the oompany had stopped Boiling it exoept for use in closed (systems, such as In large electric trans formers. heat transfer units and in dectrio capacitors. Xt was felt that It would highly unlikely th&t the chemical could pose a danger when its use wo restricted to such closed system, Papoficorge explained. are not known. Xt has been shown to cause 2*OKTH CAKQtiKA lTiS low fertility in fowl and liver damage In rnts. and 1 thought by mimy scientists to bo a serious long-term danger to man and animals, Dr. Ycutter said the public "Bhould not be unduly alarmed** over tho PCS case. **Xt is not worthwhile to worry the consumer now about something he ate a few weeks ago. Xt hasn't affcoted any consumption or chick en. Ab far oo we know every chicken sitting on overy shelf is safe and wholesome.*" But in mid-July a heat exchange unit," used in a .plant in Wilmington, N.C.. In a process designed to remove the bacteria from imported fish meal, was found to be leaking. Ti>c result who the possibility that millions of chickens and other ilvostook may have been eating contaminated feed. According to Rep. William F. Ryan, p-yT, who ha been studying the effects of the chemical for two years, the possibility of such Rep. William Pitts Ryan (D-N.YJ, who a danger has been known for many months. Monday filed a bill that would outlaw all Ryan Jniroduoed a bill Monday which production or use of PCB in the United would.ban the ale of bob in the United States, said yesterday ho was "shocked, and States. He told the Roue that be has urged outraged" by the government's handling of the Department of Agriculture* the Secretary tire cose. ' of interior, the Environmental Protection 'Tiicy'xe Just playing guessing games," he Agency and the Food and Drug Administra anld. "The sotting of the 5 port per million tion repeatedly to ban PCBo. otshdiw-d was purely arbitrary In the first Today, be called for bearing on bis bill plaoe. From all wo can find, the action of ' and tire Inaction by the federal agencies. Agriculture and FDA (Feod and Drug Ad The leakage In. Wilmington, ho Bald, ministration} has been Insufficient to say the least. " "They've bushod up earlier PCB on- tomlnatlon coses and delayed announcement in tills otiso until tho chlckene had been sold. Tblo lo unconscionable negloct In. a sit uation of staggering potential harm.1" Rop. Ryan said he would ei^u for hearingo not only on his bill but "into Agriculture and FPA'fl conduct." * "tragically illustrate the failure of the fed eral government to take preventive action, against the unconBcionsbie use of tblo deadly chemical." ADMI^IGTRWION PXIit, The Hi xou administration meanwhile, is pushing for legislation that could lead to tight regulation of industrial chemicals like FCB, Used since before World War XX until re Warren Muir of the OourciT of Environ cently in. a wide range of products, FCB has mental Quality Md today that tho fobs made its way Into the worldwide wob of life are a good example of toxic atibsLancec not and has been found in fish, wild birda (up"to adequately covered under existing law. I, 000 p.pjn.), human fat and human moth Under the Clean Air Act and Clean Water er's milk (up to .00 p.p.m.). Act, tho federal government could draw up Monsanto Corp., sole producers of POB liv * standards that might k-eguiate tha dleolVargo ho TJ.S. and 1& the United Kingdom, lost of FCBc into tho atr or water, This has not year stopped all sales of tho dicmlcnl except - been dona. for "closcd-systein" uses Ilk heavy equipment The administration*o Toxic Substances Act, equipment and industrial heating equipment such as tho steriliser In the Wilmington plant where the fish meal was oenUmluated. due for hearings next week before the Senate. Commerce Oommltteo, would permit the government to regulate the manufacture and 7n that ease, 1*013 leaked from tho ma everyday use of such chemical as well as chinery Into the fish, mrai undetected for about 12 weeks, iko discovery was made only after on of the plant's customers found that his chickens were sickening and becoming in fertile. The customer, Holly Ramis, Inc., a major regulating them as effluents. The evidence that FCBa, like DDT. can oon- oentrate and travel through the food ebatn was discovered by Swedish scientists in 1066. when they round the chemical In the car casses of largo birds of prey, primarily agios. supplier of chickens to Washington market*, tested the feed, then notified Monsanto, which traced tho source and alerted PDA. Holly Parma destroyed *17,000 chickens. The contamination wont undetected until XAter they found it In other birds, fish and evergreen noodles. Since then It has been found in man. Tn tests on mice, It causes liver damage and birth defects. that time because no agency of the govern ment regularly teste marketed flesh for two XARurim cases PUB. According to Rep, Ryan, federal authoritici have already had notice of two mstanoes IFrom the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star. whore state authorities, alarmed by PCB con July 29, 1071 j tamination, have hod to remove large quan Fjsk Mkat, CuirR:*: Firm 2s Cvaearra Busrzcr tities or food from th'e'rhnrket. _ . CHIMlCAt - Xn 2070. he stated, tho Campbell's Soup (By John Fialka) Company discovered, that a shipment of chickens it received from New York state con PCB i the shorthand name of a family of tained a high percentage of one type or PCB. 310 chemical substances, come of which have had widespread use in tho United states Bine Tii New York State Department of Agri culture ultimately destroyed 14G.OOO chickens the early 1030*. * and traced th chemical to plastic wrapping Because of mounting evidence that the lued to package chicken feed. Rep. Hyna PCUs ate toxic to animals and, like DDT, do said. * * not easily break down in nature, the Mon- That, same your, Step. Ryan enid, the Onto State Department of Agriculture found a residue of PCB in milk. They removed a largo quantity from, the market and traced th chemical to a material used to line silos, where cattle feed was trtoccd. Exactly how much PCB ia till being pro duced is a secret which Monsanto, the sole manufacturer, refuses to disclose. DLVStOTSO l 1B3D 'S According to Papagcorge, a chemical en gineer, PCB, r polychlorinated biphenyl, was first developed in the early 1230s by the Swann cnoml&al Co. In Anniston, Ala., and later taken over by Monsanto. ' Until, recently, PCB wore marketed in some Industrial paints, coatings. Inks, and in some plastics. . Now, because of MonKftnto's change in marketing policy, it is produced only for uso A ail Insulator In capacitors, <m electric device found in homo air conditioners; *a a coolant in transformers; and tui a fire resist ant medium in hoat exchange unite. Accordingly Papagoore, total removal of FOB# from some of those closed system uses Will be "next to Impossible." He pointed out that large cities In tbe UK and many other countries uso electric trans formers containing PCB because it hi an explosion proof ooolant, allowing the trans formers to be safely used in deixsly populated areas. There I no substitute chemical with th lama properties and switching to a different cooling system, such as air or gas, would mean drastically redesigning the transform ers in uso, he old. "Our entire electrical system depends on It," oottcludcd Papageorgc. "Believe me." h added. "41 we could got out r this business, w would.4' LEAVE OF ABSENCE By unanimous consent, leave of ab sence was granted as follows to: Mr. Aspinall, from 3:30 p.m., July 3D, 1971. to noon, August 2, 1971, on account of official business. SPECIAL ORDERS GRANTED By unanimous consent, permission to address the House, following the legisla tive program and any special orders heretofore entered, was granted to: <The following Members (at the re quest of Air. Crane), to revise and ex tend their remarks, and to Include ex traneous matter:) Mr. FiNDLtv, today, for 5 minutes. Mr. Milx.br of Ohio, today, for 5 min utes. Mr. H4RVEY, today, for 5 minutes. - Mr. Hocan, on July 30, for 20 minutes. Mr. Crane, on August 4, for 1 hour. (The following Members (at the re quest of Mr. Bocos), to revise and extend their remarks, and to include extraneous matter > Mr, Fraser, today, for 5 minutes. Mr. FfiRYBR of Horth Carolina, today, for 10 minutes. Mr. Oonzaleb, today, for 2 0 minutes. Mr. Fuqua, today, for 20 minutes. Mr. Reuss. today, for 2 0 minutes. Mr. St Germain, today, for 20 minutes. Mr. Dorn, on Augu*st 5, for CO minutes. EXTENSION OF REMARKS By unanimous consent, permission lo revise and extend remarks was granted to: Mr. Bennett, to revise and extend hi* \ .1 0501513 STLCOPCB4044755