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ftCfttW IlTdU STAHDARa-EXAMiHER 0. 46.735 SUN. 47,201 SEP 26 1979 r-^ " - ,--------------------- > v Martha Anal* and Robert Walters ,r 'Land Soaked With PCB' WASHINGTON--With apologies Dakota. '' to compomt Woody Guthrie, here's The Florida experience, de o now Urn (or oao of the country'* scribed at the mid-September.an best-known folk ooa(i: "From tho nual meeting of the American redwood foreete to the Gulf Stream Chemical Society, lad reosarchers water*, thla lead 1* *o*ked with to conclude that 21 percent of a PCB." . group of male eoBeg* students in PCB* are polychlorinated volved in ths study suffered from 1 biphenyl*, a family of toxic, hlfhly functional sterility. I persistent Industrial chemical* Other scientists reported at the that have earned liver dames* end American Chemical Society con birth defect* in laboratory vention that tout of PCBs fall Bern ' animal*. the air each year into the Great ' The redwood forests span the Lakes. ..' *ou'hero coast of Oregon, where a commercial bakery recently dis- Food products confiscated, de stroyed or banned by federal offl- ensured that it had purchased -- and now must destroy -- 110,000 PCB-coctaminated eggs. The GulfStream water* wash the dais because of PCB tion discovered In the early 1170* include the following: more than 700,000 eggs in Virginia and North west coast of Florida, where a chemist recently found a marked decline In tbs potential fertility of Carolina, 2M.000 pounds of turkey roll in South Csmlirwi, 10,000 tur keys in Minnesota and 110,000 chic- '. * young related men that appeared to be in pert to PCB traces Smpd -.kNeonrsthinCaMroalinina*. . Now York and 1 In the subjects' sperm. ] This month's reports of PCB con- Them's mom. New York's Hud tanunatlon aren't limited to those ' two stats*, b Franklin, Idaho, a son River, Alabama's stream* and Lake Michigan were found to have poultry company is la iho penes** such high levels of PCBs toot Babof destroying more than 100,000 inn la tho** water* was banned. contaminated chickens and mot* than 1 minion poisoned eggs. . Milk contamination has been re ported in West Virginia and Ohio. in Clinton, Iowa, a packing com ] Meanwhile, the company that pany la destroying the meat Item was the sot* I)A producer and 21.000 more chickens, all pur marketer of PCBs for almost hah a chased from the Idaho firm. In century ia busily propagandising Richmond, Utah, PCB traces have . the public about the real and im l bean fount in 71,000 trocen cakss agined gloria* of industrial chem I, that also must be destroyed. ical*. I In Billings, Mont., federal health v . officials hare converged on a hog crtiresring firm whoa* meat meal byproduct Is suapected of being the source of the moet recent outbreak '*TfT *V*Tfl**Ttr TIP St. Louis finally halted its production of PCBo (sold under the Amdortrade -name) In the autumn of 1177 -- but of widespread PCB contamination ! The government Investigation al1 ready encompass** moat of the not until it had produced enough of the toxic liquid to float an entire navy. country's northwest quadrant be- Tb* company now has mounted cauw the Montana company oalli an ambitious and expensive adver- 100.000 to 200,000 pounds of animal tUu orwhrIbw dttiflMd to do food weekly throughout Washing monstrata that chemicals *m valu ton, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, Mln- able, If not Indispensable, to mod neeota. North Dakota and South : `/ HONS 008 7A5