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PCBs spread PCBS-- to feed, food (Continued Irom rage IA) Hilo the ploni's iviwrumcr *vwm, in 17 states JwibcommMfee of the House Com merce Committee "However, It Ik our best judgment wha.lt is dri-dj-i-ij f.n nnstilHc b\p* ducts lo be u**vl In m-at meal, mi a* grivlWM Hi anim il f<*d WASHINGTON (AP) -- PCB. that (he short-term nature of this in- F red C. Fieri c 11, beard chairman Comic chemicnl *us|Heed of Causing OOisn amt llw levels of conl/minvi of the (>.-< king c<(>.u>y, arid Uw w/tv cancer, Iwis tunnel up in animal fet'd tion found so far |*>$c no Immediate rnmtnitier. "We are sorry for x*i m amt Uml ui 17 atutes from Oregon on llirent to the health of consumers m volvenient Wi this iirmlemHe -.ud , I he West Coast to New Jersey in the tfio affected states." he said. (In* first word of I'f b li-ukate* ai b>. [ Jjisl, Agriculture {Jepartmettf offi Subcommittee members were pjani came Irani hsJer.jf laviaxhas < \ cials wild Pndny. -We have now located and de mined ii|proximnt<4v 3MSMIUl> pounds of poultry and Hl.triif pounds of fresh pork," Assistant Agriculture Sec re lory Carol I ucket foreman smkJ hir- ing a conpiesskMUil hearing. She said officials had found more thun 73.UK) pounds of coniamiuait-U skeptical, however. "How can you say there Is no major health hn*n rd when people all over the country dwif know if ihey can go Into the supermarket and Imy xitft- chickens and eggs'" asked Ucp. Andrew Maguire, p NJ. Foreman said she was certain lhai there were no conixmlnnp-d Afrtruhme lrepurrmrnl oMtrluts W piuvided this list of M.iics wla-ir E IK H C(Mitaim>uiiM*i has lier-n fiuiml * Montana, Utah, Id-dvi. Wastmift,*!, Nurlli Dakota. Minn*sloa, igwa, be brnska, Wyiain.|-. Gn-fon, Pi-nnsyl vanio. New Jersey. fJInn, Kansas, South Dakota, Colorado ttiN) IIIunHo. ey* products, neatly one-third of I chickens In stores. Gardner sold he Other offickik v*i<i the toxic chem which lias been "incorporaiod into was "reasonably" certain Hint there ical had turned uj> n. iix-diirle grease Other food products " were no coniamhiairvl food products sinpfied io Ch.kJ.i aa-t TJk- Despite the spm*d of PCB cow containing eggs. such as cake mixes. grease Is used in the nmnutactun- vl taniltiatlon. imccd to ample pack It would be another 3ft days before he SOtip ing plant In Hillmgs, Mont., Foreman and die acting rommivsioiier of the food and Draft Admimsiradon said people faced no immediate heoilii threat. "PCBs are toxic and may possibly cause serious tong lerin lieallh protv tom*," Sherwm Gardner of ilk* FDA told the oversight and tnvestipaoons (Sot PCBs Page BA) could be certain, he said Subcommittee officials and Idaho Gov. John fivans also were critical Of the Agriculture iH-partuicnCs han dling of Hie contaminated products -- ms Foreman has been in ihe past. It look the government IB days to obtain lest resuh* after samples were taken from contaminated jxhjIiry. SB days to stop sales and 71 days to trace the source of the PCBs. Donald Houston, head of the Agri culture IX'purtnM-iH's l ixxi Sileiy him) Quality Scrvuc. siod of In >.>k were tr<*Hhwitj> tv* test cows, hovrv mid other amnuils slaughtered fur human conanmption for ITU run lamination. So far, he Mid, there have been m tests Hxfccnftng e'rtUtrntrtMtinQ m beef. Abnormalities found in PCB-hit insects Meanwhile, the FDA also an nounced that it had conducted a pro cery-slore survey in 24 western and Midwestern cldcs that a spokesman wild was "very reassuring Hi terms of IK H contamination FDA spokesman Wayne Pines wild agency inspectors checked egg*, chicken, pock, epp, noodles And mayonnaise at 48 rettul Motes He said truer level* of PCR w*-e found only In tl samples of egg*. The I6.0W pounds of pork ordered, wlthlleld Irom liw nmil.eiptucecame ftunt and hop sluug.htenxl Hi lettbn after being fid meal known to hma* been coninmiiMtcil with Pt H, IkxixIon said. He snnl officmk an- avail ing test results im liwiwrk itu-U 9 1GC.AN, Utah (lPI) -- ITU wns iMtlnted in hrown pelicans, Itald c*gle egga nntl cow'* milk in the early lUTOx, and Utah State University re MMirrla-rk ftwind evidence at the Him* Mult one mixture o! Uh- chemical prodiM-cd at*, rniuliiies in Insects. The rmunirrlMM* -- Nahll Youw>el, William A. Biindh-y nnd Joseph C. Sired -- Mht itud f*Jychtormated hiphenyl led to Iioiim- tly larvae imum-0 rJuinpox Hi the teste* of tin* insects. PCli was recently lound in tpps in Idnho, Montana and Utah, and Chicken farmers voiunianly dcstioyt-d hundrinls of thouwinds of rhtrkcn* io prevent contamination of lumww. Tin* chemical tx used as a coolant hi eferfrhwl equipment surh as gen erator*. Long term ex|to*Hire can rauM> liver problem* and lesions in humans. ' The USU rmwiris MMi their atudirs xlmwed lltai some trout fedthe flies which were contaminated wMh the mixture -- Aroelor ll** -- devi-kxK-d minute p)i*-*ioh>girAl changes The inrvne of tint flies wax injected wKh the Muxture while others wpre Impregnate*J wiMi aciHisie torcomrut pucpOM*s. t>i<y./>M male flies were fmmofti- lined ami dissected. JsxamuiatKxi with a mtcrowt>|>e showed that the KpermntkJhnuclei of lire (lies treated wttlt tin- rCIl failed lo divide The manufacture of PCHs, potychlorinated biphenyls, has been banned by the government Hut the toxic cbe'mlcnl still ft widely used tn electrical transformer* and other equipment as a cootanf and lubri cant. Federal officials said the source of the current contamination was a leaking transformer m a storage hed at the Pierce Packing Co. In Hil lings. Officials said Ihey believed about 2110 galkins of the PCB leaked HONS 011039