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{Hie Ann Arbor News AMI AimOH. MICH. OCT 14 '971 ar/se. How Dangerous Is PCB Chemical? ' Ity Jsmrs IIMinp ,lr. 'Jlir had new* iK-gari in 19CR -OUO Jn|iiinrM' Min1 Miiik it and live killed ufinr ratine uw.kmg i>il 1 h 1.1 voiitmned large nninimU _ul_ j`C'l().r. a. chemical fon*|WMwJ*Vrv'Toui)v ((HkWtml hiinilr.^. `Mint ended I In human toll, so'far a* if fci.mi ii. hut in MiWqurnl yrniM I'dll was re sponsible for iilim animal death*. In 1908.1?.'>')0 birili washed aslwro on the coast of the Irish Sea. victims nf I'ffi polsoslHR. In 19 70, MO.OUO I'C'ii rnnfamimd'd chickens wren destroyed in New York on federal order. Tina year, liQ.QQO twhey* in Mlmtcaot* m| M.MO chickens in North Carotin* were destroyed (or (lie same reason. TM* >ar, loo, hut com# 11a most frightening dliclo- sure f all. I'CH has been found in rardltoard fontaincr-* lor HrmU.ist ioods. mhcis. brenrl c r ii m I) a . mmftioNi smirk rhips, chocolate, cocoa ami drii'il milk. "I li.r.o to say this," a senior official of (hr Food and Dim; AdminlsiMikHi, "hut f'CH i'- r\! . ysOicrr, And sve don't l.ii'.-.v if v.r should - m should not -- be alarmed.'' H k I mtny scientist* #e very nuirh alarmed, untied. They iwinl out that 1VU (iKilyHilorinalrd biphenyl) con be (etui in larcc de* end that In smaller quantities l> ran cause fMipa/wl vi.-.mn, abdominal |>#ios and liver oil- nm.ls, There also It a school of scientific tlioeifcht that holds (lie tontjNiuml may bring out Item-lie defects in future gen eration*- .( In California, some 1,090 nlwrlc-d sea Item pups have washed ashore during Dte last lo yrais. Imeilk'Hors bilicve they time found a correlulimi between hii;h levels nf l'C in adnlt female sea IIeat and aborted fetuses. l*Clt is nol a new product. Tlsc colorless, ovdcrktt com pound i fully 90 jeers old tr.ij has been mass-produced by the Monmnto Company -- and In Kurope and .(span -- since well before World War II. and. indeed, agenty official* tend to downgrade tl.c spictidIng nalinnsi cvnrein Coinmisuoner ('hiitle* lid- wards erilicires "a few alarmi*** seeklnj he*dU*>" aiwl. while conceding ihiil I'Clt is "a potential bill not immediate health husard," in-ii-U ilu.l "the alarm is greater than the facts justify." To some conservationist- Hi use is not only In food products. Because It speeds neat iraesferenre. It is conshlvred viti 1 for electric Inaulatiofi- Ami It is also wide* iy used In paints, inks, tires, brake-linings and non-carbon duplicating paper. It was even contained in the paper of all Federal incometai forms last year. Ironically, in view of the healed reaction from environ* nieolsIJiti lo the durJosprcs of PCII's dangers. It was that cardinal environmental princi pal -- recycling -- which brought the compound Into use in cardboard fowl containers. The container* are made from recycled paper whose i n k a presumably contained PCtt. For the present, the FDA j lake* (be ix*ilio,i ihat these eonlainers are not dangerous -- so long as the buyer rats the contents, not (he card board. Anyway, Monsanto, slid the wily (j-S. producer, has restricted Us sales of PCD to heavy Industry. Though a voluntary ban on PCB sales hot been In effect in Britain since March, U S. sothoritir* are fmWing back. The FUA considers a tpU' ban on I'CU as "not feasible minded lr;:iii:ii..ts. the wards stnli-mriit itiM; familiar noli-. 'Tnforimi.il the FUA >i no' io be ii; concerned i.Ihui' tiic him < AnipiK.ni iii,i--.!rv 1l;ni level of pi.lilit koonldl e ils food Mi|';.ly." | William K It'.m of York. AimI Il'ao h..< jo duerd a bill m (\nv-ii--i the complete banning u< l` HONS 032704