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I March 21. 1978 Topic Materials News. -Page 7S TOXIC MATERIALS NEWS IN BRIEF Cancer control and prevention has been largely Ignored by National Institutes of Health, UCLA Public Health Dean Lester Breslow told a national cancer conference re cently, and suggested the government's cancer prevention program be caken out of Na tional Cancer Institute. "Time after time in the past 2S years the National Insti tutes of Health has relegated cancer control and disease control generally to the back washes of the institutes, failed to seek, adequate funding or take leadership, or literally squeezed It out of the budget," Breslow said. "Cancer control needs' its own strong advocates.'* ... President Carter, meanwhile, has decreed Chat April is "Cancer Control Month" -- a. designation intended to, educate people to "taka advantage of available resources to. prevent, needless suff erlng; and death... Cause and prevention research remains one of our highest priorities." Carter said,,'.'because prevention offers the best hope for ultimate control of cancer."' " ""'.i-"! National.. Cancer Institute has announced publiMtion of bioassay reports on dye pigment diarylanilide yellow and pesticides methojcychlor, malachion. and trifluralin. Only trifluralin was found- to be carcinogenic -- in the livers of female mice. All four reports will be available next week from Office of Cancer Communications, NCI, ethesda, Md. 200L4. Asbestos brake druafa^jLju^bjs^tile flberswhlxhare deformed enough to be es- [ecially hazardous, an" unced. Seshon said -^flHS3SQH3B9HlBHH9SSS99mHBjBI^K?ne hazard esented, and when these fibers are released in the air, they expose repairmen to lghtened threats of lung disease and cancer. / . Consumer Product Safety Commission would need additional funding of $5-milllon o implement pending legislation ordering safety rules for cellulose insulation, CFSC Chairman John Byington told a Senate Appropriations Subcommittee last week. Byington also noted chat if the agency is required to deal with various chronic haz ards' identified in an emerging National Cancer Institute study, an additional $5- mllllon and 50 staff positions will be required. Byington asked that Congress appro priate $3.4-miUioa more foe CPSC than the $44.8-million President Carter had recommended in his budget. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has named 11 members to a new standards advisory committee on skin hazards. Committee was formed to Identify the occupational exposures in industry which pose a hazard to the skin and to develop a sec of guidelines for OSHA to use in drafting a proposed standards on skin hazards. Department of Agriculture's oitrosamine panel has recommended the deparnaent issue a warning that "the.risk of cancer is Increased when fried bacon or the ren dered fat from it are consumed." The panel called nltrosamines "a potent carcinogen" . and said they-are consistently found in bacon created in the home. New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection has released preliminary re sults of a statewide groundwater testing program which is examining 300 wells for ! selected organic compounds, pesticides and metals. DEP Commissioner Rocco Ricci said early results show that water quality, in most cases, is- far better then the Federal drinking water1 standards., although 20 violations were found out of 250 wells. Almost alt of the wells contained' traces of some of the chemicals being sampled, with the majority of wells contaminated by organic compounds located in heavily populated' industrial areas and those contaminated by pesticides more prevalent in agricultural spots. State will similarly test air and surface water, DE? said. Justice Department has filed a $20-mllllon suit against Outboard Marine Corp., Waukegan, Mich., charging the firm with discharging 2-million pounds of polychlori 0033 nated biphenyls into Waukegan Harbor and Lake Michigan. The government asked Che court to order the firm to clean up the accumulated PCBs. CM CM 03 Illinois. Attorney General's office has filed suit against Amoco Oil Co., and Amoco Pipeline Co. in an actempt to recover more chan $838,000 in penalties and dam 03 ages from the companies for two spills of xylene last December. The first spill oc curred near Danville when a pipeline transporting the petroleum by-product broke, allowing 700,000 gallons of the substance to leak into the Wabash River. The second spill happened near Humrick with only a few hundred gallons escaping, but vapors were so strong in the area of the spill that local residents had to be evacuated. W.y PRODUCED BY FORD