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AUSTIN, [(INN
herald
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JUN 1 6 J975 4**
Largest Pepin dealer
PCD, which ara no .
knew of polluted carp
w*" Wwmain pollution officials In
tmK?*. murce of th. pol.
MINNEAPOLIS, Mira. V _ allowed 10 to 11 ppm.
huon in Lake poppi,,, ,
The U.S. Food and Drug Ad. mlnietraUon leva the Ingot
Lat vented
month tho FDA pre the interstate shipping
River the two tUta.
'O'flii wholesaler on Lake Popln
know olnen January 1071 that
carp takau (ram tho iaka con. tinned onooiotvo amounto ol an
and sale of m tone ol carp
>"d, tokan moatly from Lake Pepin becauaa of oxceaafva levela of PCB.
wh*
to comment why he had not
the pollution *cplrioobnlem10 rwlehaanr huep
Induatrial cbomleaL
Danyla Brawn, laboratory ehlot for tho Mlnnaopolla office
ftjwn said tho PDA had not rated earlier to atop the inter-
firet learned of It in 1971
Map shipped by Rudolph Hogue, owner of. Lake Pepin Flaheriea, Pepin, Wia.
Brawn aald rriday that a teat by the PDA in January 1171 showed 40 parta , per million
(ppm) of polychlorinated biph enyl in' flab which Hogue had
taken from Uke Pepin, He federal limit on pen < $ ppm,
PDA teata in mld-1071 ahowed 10 and 7 pom of the chemicaj in the fish1 tIaken by Hogue, Brawn
and a July 1074 teat
ever be aald tho U.S. Supreme Own nded in February that the FDAdoos have jurtadtotira ever ouch addidvea auch aa'
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