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imii/ii "CH. 0. S.SOO JAN 27 m Will stop making chemical ST. LOUIS <UP1) -- Monsanto Co. announced Monday it plans to phase out the manufacture of a toxic group of chemicals known as PCBs, which en vironmentalists contend are threatening public health and the nation's rivers and lakes. Monsanto is the sole maker of PCB, or polychlorinated biphenyl, which is used primarily as a nonconductor of direct electrical current, t he chemi cal has been a necessary ingredient in most power generating equipment. I'CBs haw been in manufacturing processes since HMU, but their presence as toxic substances in the environment was not detected until 1906 because they were confused with DDT, with which they have a similar chemical structure. ONS 03ioa9