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Packing firm destroys about 77,000 broilers
-- At least 77,000 broiler chickta lava boon destroy*! by a Hektng company hero after eta showed eoma of there had been contaminated by a
uapoctod of causing birth dafacta and liver dem ote la experiments on mice.
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May said Holly Farms dotroyed the 77,000 broUaau * ter it found PCB con tamination in several gamma batches of so chickens that bad been taken from *ch of
He id flock consisted of ''several thou sands broilers on up."
nated MpHeny, (P CB), was With contaminated chick
discovered in autopsies on en was found in a sample
chickens from flocks raised batch, he said, the entirafleck for HoUy Farms Industries of was destroyed.
wukesboro, according to Dr. May Hid Holly F,rm. Ind
**,u*eth May, the oompany's dwctor of research and ouall* ty asatrance.
ww Agriculture Department ran duplicate checks on fat
samples taken from SO-ddck-
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