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tr NATIONAL AGRICULTURAL CHEMICALS ASSOCIATION > THE MADISON BUILDING I IBB FIFTEENTH ST.. N.W. WASHINGTON. O. C. 2000B NAGRCHEM . FHi 202 2BS-IBBS December 13, 1969 / ? Mr. E. S. Bauer General Manager Agricultural Division Monsanto Company 800 North Lindbergh Boulevard St. Louis, Missouri 63166 Dear Ed: I am enclosing a copy of a letter I have just re ceived from Lou McLean. Lou was with Velsicol for a long time and was their in-house counsel and Corporate Secretary. He is a virtual walking encyclopedia in the fish-wildlife-pollution problem areas of our industry. I heard Dr. Risebrough on December 11 here in Washington at a symposium at the Smithsonian Institute refer to PCBs and their probable ad verse effect upon the environment. Sincerely, 'r.AA _ Parke C. Brinkley President PCBsvs Enc. DSW 202875 STLCOPCB4052934 . - . Louis A. McLean . Asri-Dusinoss Consultant ' 52S Happ Road . ' Norlhfiold, Illinois 60092 . Aras 312 446*1251 ` . . ' r .' ). December 9, TflMSEBDOilE. 1 ulu i i 1963 HkiSED If 15 m 1969 * Mr. Parke C. Brinkley ' National Agricultural Chemicals Assn. 1155 Fifteenth St., N. W. Washington,. D.C. 20005 . . Dear Parke, ' " .. i You may wish to send this letter, or a copy, to Monsanto. I . do not know to whom the information should be sent. And it is barely possible this information is: not knovhto them. In a six-page-plus, single-spaced letter dated November 22na . addressed to Deans Linsley and Zivnuska of the Berkeley campus, Robert Risebrough, a trustee or director of the Environmental Defense Fund, writes: "You wili note in the list of publications that most of my work over the past two years has been with a class of industrial pol lutants that are now contaminating the environment and which pose a more serious long than any of the insecti- cida derivatives. One of the papers that I hope to finish this next week concerns their detection and identification in human milk. If these compounas should prove harmtui to man, our marine fisheries will be wiped out Qvsrnight! Unlike the-cyclamatBS^ We will not be ahle to take them from the shelves, since they are everywhere. The environmental pollution problem has sudden ly become very serious. When the extent of environmental con tamination by these compounds becomes more generally known, there will be another round of hearings and requests for in- jformation. It will probably be my luck at that time to be /associated with a College of Chemical Engineering where there 1 will be |>olitical problems comparable to those I am now encount ering in^tHe~College ot Agriculture as a result of my work with DDT. And there will be an equivalent toDr."..."working for the ^Monsanto Company." etc. As you know, Risebrough has attributed the manufacture of all PCBs to Monsanto. At the Wisconsin Hearings he demonstrated close touch with English sources. The clipping from today's Chicago Tribune thus suggests material Risebrough can be ex pected to parrot. And he can be expected to argue that the RCBs cause the same results he has attributed to DDT. . If this is new information, I thought Monsanto would like to know. . Sincerely yours. DSW 202876 STLCOPCB4052935  > ) STUDY EFFECT *. OF bHEMICALS k, IN IRISH SEA Jo. rChicoo Tnbunt Prtst $*rrct1 COP LONDON, Dec. 8--Scientific ; ---- teams investigating the deaths.! of seals, sea birds, and fish off Britain's west coast, have 1-- started research on chemicals dumped in the Irish sea. j-1 * > One chemical under dose scrutiny is polychlorinated';!!, biphenys, a synthetic lubricant^ used in the paint and plasticsT3 industry, which until recently 'LA was not thought to have any toxic effect on wildlife. ' ; Research by the nature con- Refc servancy's Huntingdonshire ex- < perimental station showed that thousands of sea birds found jiight dead along the west coast six veni< weeks ago contained large |Ope> quantities of the chemical. ITHE - ;r l .. k' DSW 202877 STLCOPCB4052936