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A 6 FrUhr, Nov. J, 1971 THE WASHINGTON POST Swift Set to Destroy 50,000 Tainted Turkeys BY Elcle Carper ties of DDT. Until recently it the market by Swift in August WuUtttaa PMt Stott Wrttor wee widely used In plnsdee, A batch of turkeys found printing ink, carbonises car*] heavy concentration of PCB. tainted tht Industrial bon paper and other products1 Agriculture confirmed that chemlcf^ECBjtrill not be sold It is still used as a heat con-| some of trations the birds hod concen as high as 100 to 300' for humArctineumptlon, Swift ductor. PCB degrades very) ppm. h Co., the nation's biggest' slowly In the environment! The birds were discovered meat packer, announced yes and, because it is fat soluble,1 at the Swift Dairy and Poultry terday. finds its way into human tla> Co. plant, Detroit Swift Issued the announce* sue through the food chain. , Minn., in August The source ment after It was reported The chemical is known to! of the PCB has not ` that the Agriculture Depart kill shellfish and game birds. I found. ment was testing the 50,000! In 1988. five Japanese died) This summer a chicken pro birds held in a Minnesota: end 1,000 suffered seme skin1 cessing firm destroyed mors warehouse to see if they could rashes when e large amount ofI than 80,000 chickens that had be salvaged for frosen din* PCB contaminated a batch of] eaten contaminated flab meal. ners, soups and pot pies. cooking oil. Earlier in the year, tbou-j The Agriculture Department! Agriculture said that if the! sands of chickens were do* said It la routine to make such i company elected to salvage strayed In New York after tests. But Swift sold that re* I the turkeys, worth an esU* they ate PCB In chicken feed gardless of the outcome, the matsd $300,000, It could be had been made from stale, company will destroy the done only if the meet had a, broad and plastie bread wrap-] birds or use them for feed for PCB concentration of no more1 per, ground up together. such nonedlble animals ae than 8 part* permtlllon (ppm) i Mors recently, PCB wasi after the fat was skimmed off found to have leaked intop PCB (polychlorinated bl> la cooking and the skin and dried foods from cardboard!* phepyl) la a man-made chemi bones discarded. containers made of recydM cal with many of the proper The turkeys wars taken off! paper. 1 HONS 069786