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Monsanto
E. V, John - St. Louis
December 29, 1969
Mr. J. J. Spano - JSPAN
Mr. E. P. Wheeler - EWHEE Mr. H. S. Bergen - HBERG Mr. J. E. Sprlnggate - JSPRI Mr. P. B. Hodges - PHODG Mr. W. R. Richard - WRICH Mr. P. S. Park - PPARK
The attached clippings and television interviews come from our PR office in London. The Irish Sea bird kill and the seal deaths on the Cornish coast have precipitated an unusual number of news media reports. Many of these reports are inaccurate and inflammatory. Fortunately, our U.S. position statement has taken some of the heat out of the situation, for the moment.
Environment magazine, St. Louis, is planning their article for January, 1970, which could generate other PCB stories in this country.
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E. John
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W JOURNAL "Horthoro Daily Kail*1 f&artlapool)
DATE
*o. , 19*9
Chemicals probed
after seal deaths
SCIENTIFIC Inmt lureeUnatlnf Ok* deaths of West
^ Coast seals, aaa birds, and fiah havr started rraaarch
on ehemleals dumped In the Irish Sea One that Is under close scrutiny Is F.C.B. {polychlorinated blpbenys). a
synthetic lubricant used In ihe paint and plastics industry.
There are several chemical I /~7I
dumytnj^ ermines^ la the Iriah j A Ministry of Afrteutture
tiatn e--fr ^Aft-l-e--u--l-i-u--r-e tynkewyan . _ ___
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are a number of theee 4umpfns of rhemleel and industrial
mends where vesaals can
dumy industrial end chau
wnato writ)out canwltottau.'
They alt said they had net
ChswdtaW known ti he toale have tn be dumeed to deee water--mere than tJSC fatbray* -- hut ethers sea he damped '
Tlieee Include PCI heeeusa until eessntly It was theueht to have any exle el
mm SSTA?w
^4V^aS*ricT*"
M tha conservancy, which haa hewn eaamiiuiii the effects 1 P.CJS for three mewlhc. aaya that until It cm set hdub healthy Writ during Mil rear's breedto* season and nsssure their level af tesidty it cannot
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iM'Cieinls at the
a Plant *t
Newport the only place in Britain unking the chemicals
rcll's, today denied that they were in any way responsible
for the leakage of chcr.iicnls inti* the sen that are being
blamed for the massive poisoning of sea birds mid fish around
Britain's most line.
`i he chcr-iicals are known a^^cJMsbnrt for I'oly-
chlorinntod Uinhenyls. The only manufacturers of this in
this country are Monsanto Chemical Company who have a large
plant on the coast of Newport. I'he i'cU's made there are
supplied to n wide variety of industries all over the country,
including firms making plastics and paints. Now the chemical
got into the bodies of the birds is o mystery. The Monsanto
Company soy the Kells certniuly weren't discharged into the
sen by them. So far there's been no clue at ail os to hov the
substance got anywhere near the Irish Sea.
Monsanto sn.i
it's far from certain that it was in fact 1'cl) that hilled
the birds. The company's scientists in userira fed heaw
Humilities of (da* chemical to rats in a yu day experiment, At
the end of it the rats were ns healthy as ever. Monsanto clan*
that cases of J'ch a* having toxic effects arc very rare, mm:
the company any they take the {..rcnte*t core in the manufacture,
storage and shipping, of the chemicals.
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Transmitted on W.e5t.YJ.arti Television. "Westward Diary"
Lcngih....5...mint....... Date.... 8.tJi..X!eera'ctar>...1.9i.9........... Time .6 ,.p..m.
Short Title........... r.C.iu............................................
Del Cooper: "New warning to Britain on wild life sea deaths". "Riddle of the ditch of death". "This stinking sea". They're three headlines that point to the grim possibility that the seas around the South-West could be polluted by a poisonous chemical. The chemical is known as R.C.B. It's a poisonous waste substance that the plastics industry dumps at sea, the sea in question being the Irish Sea. There is a possibility that it drifts down the Irish Sea towards the coast of the South-West. Well, just how poisonous is it? Well, this autumn, about ten thousand guillemots, a common sea bird, died in the Irish Sea, the big concentrations of B.C.B. were found in the carcasses of the dead birds, but it could be that the poison substance has found new victims. Over the last few weeks, dead and dying baby seals have been washed up along the coast all around the South-West. Well, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Beal experts have said that the seals have died from pneumonia and that their deaths aren't abnormal, but Hr, Arthur Bourne, who is the Chairman of the Ocean Resources Conservation Association, an independent body of marine scientists, isn't so sure. iie feels there have been far too many deaths. During the last few weeks, fifty dead and dying seals have fetched up around our coast, including one reported in the Ccillies today, and the connection with the poisonous r.C.E.? Well, the Ministry admit tnat this substance has been found in commercial fish around the coast, particularly in the Irish Tea and
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fishermen in the South West have reported pollack, cod,
sickly, underweight and in some cases witn ulcers on their
bodies.
Well, could there be r.C.B. in these fish?
Well, this is a question I'd like to put to Nr. ARthur
Bourne, who's in our London studio.
Mr. Bourne, is it possible that the poisonous fish
had been eaten by these seals who have subsequently died?
Mr. Bourne: I suppose it's possible, yes, we have no
evidence of this though and I hope the Ministry's scientists
are, in fact, investigating this very point.
D. Cooper: Now we've had fifty seal deaths around our
coasts, do you regard this as being abnormal?
Nr. Bourne: I do for the Cornish colonies, yes. Where
you get a large colony, such as in the Orkneys and so on,
you might get quite a large number of deaths at this time
of the year, but no, not in Cornwall. Furthermore, people
who know the area well, would have spotted this kind of
thing going on years past, but they haven't. They've come
across up to about seven, perhaps ten dead seals in the
time we've had recently where we've got fifty ... this is -
what - ninety per cent more. D. Cooper: Of course one thing that would worry, I think,
a lot of people is. that if this r.C.B. can get into fish,
can it also get into people?
Mr. 3ourne: Well, if it gets into fish and we eat the
fish, obviously it can get into us, yes.
b. Cooper: How worried are you that this might happen?
Mr. 3ourne: Well, I think we're all worried about this kind of pollution, I don't think it's just me ... any one
individual ... any group of individuals, we are all concerned.
What we want to see done is the Natural Environment Research
Council, the Ministry of Ag and Fish, to look into this for
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our benefit, not just for the wild life, this is our
environment too.
D. Cooper: There is some suggestion, in fact, that the
Government isn't telling us the whole truth about r.C.B.
Kir. Bourne: No, I don't know about that because, let's
be honest, when we had the guillemot disaster, which you
mentioned, the N.E.R.C. did, in fact, call a Council of
their experts and bodies involved in this and they did put
out a press statement. I think what is lacking is a more
co-ordination and a speedier investigation of such
happenings in the future. We should have somebody there
... and still should have somebody in the area now, looking
into this.
D. Cooper: What practical steps do you think ought to be
taken at this moment?
Mr. Bourne: Well, one of them I've just hinted at is
that we should have a group of scientists on the spot,
looking at the seals who are 3till coming in, taking blood
samples for virus studies and so on, taking tissue out for
chemical analysis, so that they can get right to the
laboratories without any delay, and also have the authority
to call in other specialists who they think they require
at any one time.
.
D. Cooper: For many years a lot of scientists suspected
that D.D.T. was a poisonous substance which could eventually
harm human beings, do you think this F.C.E. is in the same
class?
ir. Bourne: Well, it's not far off it, yes, I think it
could build up and build up in the fat tissue just like
D.D.E. which is a breakdown substance from D.D.T. Already
it has been reported from the Baltic and from the Dutch
coast, from fish, wild fowl and other animals in their
environment. It'3 increasing, obviously.
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D, Cooper: Should reople to worried at this stage anyway, about eating fish? Mr. Bourne: No, I don't think so, I shouldn't think so at all. There's a lot of scare about at the moment but I hope that tne Minister of Ap, and Pish will allay this one by saying: "Well, we're looking into the fish and the seals for these chemicals", and tell u3 exactly what is happening and what they've found. I). Ciooper: Mr. Bourne, thank you very much indeed.
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Transmitted on.
uilC.. .Television...
''2# Hours"
litn.. l.e.c.er.fccr , . lliii.......... Time lv.,3-
Short Title .. Kilo. Life...iuva. Chemicals.
James Burke: Over the past ten years there's been growing
concern over one of the less pleasant side effects of tuis
country's growing industrialisation, the pollution of our
countryside and the waters arouna Britain by inaustrial waste
and the chemicals used by farmers to make everything grow
bigger and better and faster.
,nSo whem large scale wildlife
disasters occur the demandsfor a solution to the problem gets
so loud and so heated that the cool scientific facts often
get lost in a welter of emotion.
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Take the three most recent incidents. 50 seals found
dead on the North Cornish coast were reported to be poisonea
oy chemicals, out wnen "2*4 hours" talked to the biologists
who actually examined their bodies, their verdict was tnat
death was probably due, not to chemicals but to malnutrition.
The codfisn taken off the Kent coast recently were four.u to
be scarrou and covered in ulcers. Again, chemicals nave
been blam.eu, but, again, the marine biologists disagree. 11.ey
say it's much more likely that rough seas had smasned the fiun
against underwater rocks, cut them up ar.d then the cuts went
septic. Tney don't suspect chemicals. Last of all nearly
10.000 seabirds were found dead or dying on the shores of the
Irish Sea. This tine cnemicals were found in the dead uirus,
compounds called P.C.3. folycnlorinate iiifinol which plastics
and paint companies do use and do dump in the sea.
Now, Ian Press, you were the man involved ir., so to speak,
the autopsy, on some of these birds, what did you discover?
nr, Ian Press:
Well I unould point out that ir. audition to
ar. examination of these sirus being carries out at our
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laboratory at .-'.onkswoou, tr.cy have teen exar.ir.eu by ot..cr
establishments, veterinary establishments, medical
laboratories, ana laboratories specialising ir. the analysis
of heavy metals, such as lead, arsenic and mercury.
J burke :
But it was you who found the P.C.b?
Mr. Pres3: Yes. i.'o disease has been found and no heavy
metals were found to oe present tnat could explain t.ie
circumstances. Our laboratory has specialised in the
organa cnrlorine compound, that is the D.D.T. type compound
used as pesticides and this P.C.u. is chemically very
similar to D.D.T. and during the course of our analyses
we discovered the P.C.B. wa3 present.
J. burke: Did you discover it at a level at which you
eould be certain was lethal in the birds?
Mr. Press: No we didn't. Very little is known about F.C.b
at the moment, ,,.. the analytical side is still in its
infancy and one can't be very accurate in the results one
obtains. one can only give an approximate figure or the level
of residues present in the body. Nor do we have very nuen
information on the toxicity, so it's extremely difficult to
draw anu definite conclusions from the results that have been
obtained.
J, burke:
Yes, but X mean you have done the investigation
you are qualified to talk. There are others presumably who
consider themselves qualified and there have been reports
specifically saying tnat these birds died from the effects of
P.C.B's. one by ... there was an article by Arthur oourr.e
just after it Happened.
Mr. Press: Yes. Well this we feel unfortunate. we can
sav categorically on the evidence that is available at the
moment it would be quite wrong to assume that P.C.b's. were
the cause of deaths of these birds. The evidence just is no
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available.
J. Burke: So you'd say that the reports we got from the
Press today were exaggerated?
Mr. Press: Yes. We feel tnat it's rather unfortunate in
many ways that this exaggeration has occurred. It leads, I
think, to the impression that until this incident we were
unaware that P.C.B's. were present in wild birds. how c.iis
iB not tne case. From the time that P.C.B. was first
discovered by Swedish scientists in 1966, we have, in fact,
been examining British wild oirds for residues of tnis compound.
We've examined well over J00 British birds now, mainly
predatory birds from all parts of the country.
J Burke:
So you can say that there is definite pollution
going on?
Kr. Press: Oh yes, ....
J.'Burke: In the birds and in the sea, in their environment?
Mr. Press: Yes, we were already aware that this compound
was present as a background residue in most wild birds in Britain, and we'd also carried out a preliminary toxicological
study using one of these compounds, this is a point one has to
bear in mind, it's not just a chemical, it's a series of
compounds all rather similar but possibly having slightly
different toxicity.
J.Burke: Is it difficult to analyse this particular compound,
do you have to know what you're looking for when you ao an
analysis?
Mr. Press:
Oh yes, you do indeed, and this is one of tne
difficulties. There are so many of these different poly
chlorinated blfinols that could be In the environment ar. or.e
isn't quite sure which particular one you should oe looking
for, anti this isftart.lv why nr.n cnn't rot an accurate figure.
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J. burke: It seems to no that there are now literally
hundreds of these chemical cor,pounds in our environment and
nave been for some years, is there an increasing danger that
we will not be ... we no longer will be able to assimilate
them and cope with them?
Kr. fress:
A great number ef chemicals, although tney gc
into the environment, break down fairly rapidly. The ones
that have caused concern in recent years, and Quite rightly,
are tne ones tnat are persistent, and this is wny the D.S.'i.
group and closely allied pesticides, have come in for scrutiny
lately.
J. Burke: But if wnat you say about tne difficulty of
analysing for them, I mean that you have to Icow what you're
looking for in order to find it in the first place..........
Kr. Press: Yes.
J.Burke: .......... What's your reaction tnen to the calls on
the part of the non-scientists for a sort of total all
inclusive and final investigation and discovery of the things
tnat are going to be found?
llr. Press:
Well unfortunately it's not as simple as this.
As you yourself said, there are a whole range of compounds in
our own particular field, the possible effects of chemicals
on wild life. How wild life is subjected to a whole range
of chemicals. It's quite impossible with the resources
available to investigate every one. So you have to pic* out
the most likely subject and one is often led to this by a
particular incident.
J. Burke: by accident, in fact? If it kills you know?
Hr. Press: Yes. If an unexpected incident occurs you
investigate and find out the cause and this may well leaa to
an unsuspected side effect from the cneir.icals ............
J burke: Yes, out what you're saying is, it seem3 to me,
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turns up in a sense that we've got to live with what we Know,
the area that we don't know we just have to wait until sor.ethir."
occurs, we've got to live with the situation?
Mr. Press: Well I think partly so. We get a lot of benefits
from modern technology, there is always the danger of these
siae effects and we must constantly be on the alert to deal with
them.
J. ourke:
Thank you Mr. Pres3.
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Extract from Economist, London
[3 DEC 1969
Pollution
Within the law
two month*. The chemicals, derived ftoo\, chlorine sod known u PCBs, nr* vmd la plastics, paints and comtetim end turn up in many induntru} effluents. The normal concentration of PCBi in noil animal life n around tan para in a mlffaw but concentrations twenty time* ai high an being found in the dead btrda Sadly,
or tUecaTduamaf of the chemical that could explain the deaths like it expiainod tha death of fish in the Rhine. It seans that the pollution has built up eutiaaty withia the framework o4 the law. 1 ---s
Tha royal commission to look Into
KUutjon of the envinmmem, which ime Minuter announced on Ttamf will concern itself with how far the 1 should be changed, and like all re commissions, is likely to take its timet 1 more immediate issue is whether existing law is being enforced as wel as It might The answer is almost certainly that it Is hot Twelve different department pt present dabble in the subject; the mast ; important of them, coming under the aegis of tha Ministry of Housing and Load) Government being the river authorities. Almoe* all tha moo million gallons aft Voter that era daily polluted by dnmseik or industrial use pour into fivers and tidal, wntara And the- law haves it n eadr
authority so decide wuat Isvols of pcdlutian. it will allow. Thera are 09 river authorities; they at! act independently, are all subject to local pressures, and so for have been slow lo use anything like the full powers given to them under the Clean Rivers Act of 19A1. Some even complain that the equipment needed to measure the chemicals In their water it too expensive to buy. So the situation oould be even worse than we suspect. This is where rome action is going to be expected of Mr Anthony Croslamfs new ministry; he is already setting up two advisory panels, one for farm chemicals in the postDDT am md another for noise-
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JOURNAL THE TIMES
DATE
10h Dcnb*r, 1969
PAGE:
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Malnutrition
` killed grey
seal pups '
By Our Science
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1
mio the death A
of gr> veal pup* off the Cornish \
coast had tailed to show iny
Abnormal tauMts, Mr. Nigel
Bonner, head of (he teal re
search unit of the Natural En
vironment Research Council,
a>d in London yesterday He
aid these animals were dying of.
malnutrition,
{_ i->*
Mr Bonner had come to Lon*
don to diwusi pingrpw with other scientists at the counol
and to attend meeting at the
House of C ommon*.
Livers from three %cah are to
be eiammed bv the Scottish
Fisheries I ahoratorv at Pit
lochry. Perthshire, for traces of
DD1 and pnlschlonmiicd
btphem U (P< B.si Pitlochry u
one of the laboratories mvolsed
in routine studies t>i the unin
tended oortinence of pesticides
io the environment
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The Ministry of Sgriculiure
and f isheries swd yesicidev that
rw fish or shellfish had been i affected The levels ot P.C.'.Bs. | the industrial chemicals impb j cetcd n the deaths of sea birds i in the Irish Se, in October, had | shown ni increase in fish stocks,
i which .ire being continually ,
I monitored
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' The Vfinisu-y denied any
. Mtempi to cover up.
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GUlRDLLM
DATE
10th Storalwr, 1969
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Seal deaths
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By or Sdnct CtrrftpoMut
No unusually large kill of between Um number of reports
fii pupa has taken place along of dead or dying pupa and th# the Onrnlah tout: this year's number of arala actually killed,
atinurnudlfy Iky in the b*gft for some seal pupo mighl appear mimhor of repwn* of deni more than onro in the reports. rail--probably and indicator It waa now thoiuM that
of increasing public awareness between 37 and 90 hail died
of wild lift problems. Mr Nigel Although no accurate' popula
Minor, director of the Natural tion figures misled for the fcnvironrocM Moeerch Coun Curntsh pool.'colony It was
cil's sea) research unit. thought to In* betwn-n 200 and
Lowestoft, Mid t London 900. In that cast, aince 30
V:ettcrday.
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per cent flf teal pup* nonii.il Iv
ifeoro vii an mi of overlap died of atorvaUM during tbo i
Aral wooka of Hie tb number
V pup deaths waa normal. In t
A atobl# colony roughly AO per !
cent of ait pupa died during
t$o Arat *tx months af lift.
Uver tossU
Since- the aoal pupa had
starved to death there waa no
TffiihW* Id Inal:rap for toxic
residues, buk three livera--the
next boat material for examina tion -- were bring tested.
Although the Cornish coait hod been searched, no adult j
seals with unusual injuries had I
been found. '
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But Mr Ken Jonei- at the !
St Agn+k MAI UAcluary, whc 1
*!---sDtUartine..cd.r..e..a..s&..e I
yfiQlPaKify- rMiM n?atif
With the total population of
seal* unknown, as is the pro
portion of lost pup* normally
imding their way out to sea,
there are unfortunate caps in ,
the argument migccMinc a nor- i
| mal kill. Mr Bonner. hwe\er. j
it. an acknowledged expert and I
; NERC is satisfied.
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By Mr Maota CimifHinl
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had beta eeirtOea, na adult;
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i t>i* t^umrnt Pi4lersimc nor*
i mai till. Mr ftonn?r, h<iwipr.
; m> in acknowledged uptri and
, NEAL il MUaM.
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"Borthom Daily Kail" fS&rtUpool) . . 1*9
Chemicals probed
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