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fSstlv Xmvs Digest Service JOURNAL international Kerala Tribune DATE September 30, 1971 PAGE 7 PCB Contaminant in Food Is Traced to Its Container Bv Richard D. Lyons WASHINGTON, Sept. 23 Tolerance Guidelines 'N\*i.--Tl.e Focc !i.,u Drug Administration has announced hat it has found high levels of the ehc.r.lrai contaminant PC3 in shredded wheat packed in re cycled cardboard. Toierar.ee guidelines establish ed by the FDA for PCB in food range from 0.5 parts per million for eggs to five for fish and poultry. PCB roniaminaiior. in cooking An agency spokesman said oil in Japan three years ago Monday that since 'he finding killed five persons ar.d afflicted last June, the manufacturers of 1.000 others with a severe form the r-.rnbcsrc ard the food com of none. The chemical is also panies had stopped using the known to cause liver damage type u( .-ardbnard ti.at caused and malformations in birds and the containmst'.an. fish. Tit? ca'-dboard had apparently boor- made <->; diffe-cr.t kinds of waste paper, including carbonless if.! . v'1 ur.i'i.' T~Tff.; T -s. t-o.li ^ chemically skin to the insecticide DDT ar.d PCB eon'.s mine ticn has recently Tlie substr.nco. which is gradu al.v being eliminated from indus trial prnduct.s. decompose* very slowly, thus lingering in the en vironment. Its use has been banned in Britain and is rapidly declining in the United States. been found in eyes, chickens, tur keys. salmon and fish meal. Japan Firm Guilty Routine Analyst? TOKYO. Sent. 23 NYT).--A A spokesman for the FDA said the PC3 had beer, detected cur ing a routine analysis of food preriuTs cased on the foods that a 19-yrar-oM youth might rou tinely eat. A composite sample of cereal product* she rd that 0 4 parts per il-cTT TT*Ti was ser! VV.ir i cnmnor.ents of the ample wr-e individually exam- i Inert. i nr onus? was traced tr> the j shet d,1:-d wlie.ii. Tiie spokesman ! smd tiie PC3 cout animation of I varices braids of shredded wheat j nv.-'crt from ere part per miliicn | to U4 puis per rilinor. Japanese district court found a leading chemical company guilty todav of polluting a river ar.d or dered damages paid to 77 victims of mercury poisoning. Judge Keilchl Miyazaki, of the Niigata District Court ruled that the Shotva Danko firm had pol luted the Agano River with mer cury discharged from a plant up stream from Niigata, a city on Japan's northwest coast. Ke found that the victims, seven of whom had died, had oeen poison ed by eating fish from the river. The .tudg? awarded the plain tiffs damages totaling about 510.000 at the current floating The xpoke.-man s.iid that the FDA V.rs now testing 13 o:her rate of exchange, which ~was fud rr.'.'iUT-. reeked in recycled slightly mere than ha!.' of v.iiat perev n d.:i":T-.ine if they too they had asked. While low bv were ri'v'ru level. The products American standards. it was s nr.ac from. frozen fruit juices to considerable sum for a court set po.eto olr.ps. tlement here. The ucr: y's t"el-,r.ir;ai:s found More important were the or?c- that ;1v" - of Prn in trip card- /I ' r.' repaid Mini raw : B'l ,.ar. :o jj pas'L per ed/h.s and pomfeui tinphca- t.uns. It \vtu> the I .j. r r 1 four niujor court polluiion crocs io be se.tltd. Siiawa D.-r..,., ;t -"aid tv.c .ropes, the d._. .-s. SW 282566 / STLCOPCB4063895