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By CHAT BLAKEMAN. k , Waterford, die nearest municipality discharges to several ounces by 1977. At
Concern about possible health* , south of tf>e GE plants which draws its one time it was discharging about 30
hazards from the ^bemical PCB has - drinking water from the Hudson. Tests ^pounds a day. :
prompted the state Health Department made several years ago found traces of. A spokesman for GE was unavailable
to begin a statistical survey of cancer the chemical in the district's water for comment this morning.
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and cancer-related- deaths in the Tri-j .supply, but In amounts health depart* Government officials and private
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ment officials said posed no threat to researchers are uncertain about the
The study, to deal specifically with health.
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threat PCB may pose to human health.
liver cancer and possibly pancreas and - Although GETs discharge into-, the > It is a chemical, however, which , is
bladder cancer, will be based on in* - river is th$ only one documented to attracting the same amount of attention
formation contained in-the New York contain the chemical, firms in' Buffalo. DDT did in the 1960 s. one official of the
State Cancer Registry, said Dr. William .Brooklyn. Queens and Bay Shore also state Department of Environmental
S. Burnett of the state's Bureau of - use PCB in their .manufacturing Conservation said'last week.
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Cancer Control. It is to cover Warren, . processes. GE is under government' WashingtonandSaratoga counties from order to. reduce the amount it
Dr. James Allen of the University of
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Wisconsin^Metical School has r
that monkeys fed regularty-arith ic containing 2.5 to 300 parts per'million of the chemical showed redness of skin. facial swelling, acne, loss of hair and < irregularity of menstral Cycles. The * research has also shown the chemical. t ` can affect reproductive capability. * / ` ,
In another study, Dr. Renata Kinslbw
of the toxology branch of the Center for ' '
Disease'Control in Atlanta, found the :' .
chemical had a cancer-producing effect- '
"of a very low order" in rats exposed to
the chemical for a lifetime.
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