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DETROIT NEWS DETROIT. MICH, in eso,ooo is) 1,000,000 JUN 1 4 1975 IZOO State commission recommends ban on use of PCB LANSING--(AP>--The Natu Drug Administration (PDA). ral Resources Commission yet- The FDA has seized some terday voted, $-0, to ilk the shipments of chubb caught in Legislature to ban the uae and Lake Michigan because PCB production of a chemical which levels were found to be up to 20 is contaminating fisb in Lake Michigan. The chemical, jtolkfihlftci* -Bated biphenyl (PCB), ie used Iiarts per million. The FDA egal level is five parts per mil lion. Human health could be endangered at a level of 500 in a variety of household prod ucts. The commission called for its ban on a national level as well as in Michigan. 1 parts per million, the FDA said. PCB appears in a wide range of products ranging from paper "We hope this state will lead to hand soap. The sole U.S. the nation in banning PCB/' the commission said in a state ment. Commiuion Chairman Carl Johnson said he sees no manufacturer is Monsanto Chemical Co. of St. Louis, which agreed in the early 1970's to stop selling PCB for some alternative other than an out industrial uses But the chemi right ban. cal has since been sold for Pish in Lake Michigan have other industrial, commercial PCB levels above the limits el- and household uses.4 lowed by the U.S. Food end.