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h-UROTS.i.N CHisJ'JCAL NEWS September 17th 1975 General Electric pay for PCB research general Electric, a major US user of polvchiorinaicil biphenyls tPlBd. has agreed to pay $3 million inward'* the cleaning up of the Hudson Rivet, one of several US waterways in which high concentrations of ihc confounds have been found, it has also agreed to ray SI million towards related research work. The first evidence of the possible carcinogenicity of PCBs was recently presented by Mobil researchers in a* prclimin-iry report on epidemiological studies. At the same time Dow Chemical is to expand Us production of butyluted monovhlorodiphcnyl oxide which ap pears to be the only competitive substi tute far PCBs us dielectrics in capacitor applications. Distribution A Munn P J A Marsh D B Shearn D R Bishop 2d v John Monsanto clears PCBs Monsanto has found no cases of either malignant'"melanoma or pancreatic can cer amongst more lhan J00 post or pre sent workers at its Sauget. Illinois, poly chlorinated biphenyls plant, according to Cieorge Roush, director of Mon santo's medical and environmental health department. This statement came in response to a recent Mobil study link ing the diseases with PCBs. The Saucet plant, opened in I9J6. is Monsanto's only PCB unit m the US. MOMS 036614 Public Monsanto Relations