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rolling meadows, il HERALD 1. i SWr 1 ill SEP 2 4 1979 PCB contamination to haunt countryfor decades to come With apologia la campoaar Woody Culhrle. here* a now lino for an* of MarthaUta country* boot-knowe fall) aongc 'Tram Ika raOwaad for**!* ta the Golf Slraam Mara, this land it tooted with PCB." Angle and PCBa art polychlorinated biphenyl*, a family of undo. highly panlotoul Induotrlal Chanucah lhat ham caoaaU Robert Walters Umr aaiMfo and hiith dofach in labo ratory animal*. Tht redwood foroola tpon Iht aooth- orn cooat of Oiugea. whom a commer cial bakery recently diamond that It had parrhmad -- and now moat Ooatroy - ao,aot PCB-contamlneted IP- atroyad or banned by federal official* becaee* at PCB cootamlaatloa dlacoeored la the early 1171* Inctedo the fol lowing: mom than 400.9M tgp la Vlr- glnla and North Carolina, tM.NO potinda of tartey roll la South Carolina, M.NP turkaya la Mlrmaaota and TUB GULP RBEAM rmton aak JM.NP chtckana in Maine, Now York the neat coaat of Florida. nhom a chamlat racoatly found a marked de cline la the potential fertility of young man that appeared la ho related la port to PCB tracaa found la Ike aab- Joeta'opera. Tkh mooth'i reporta of PCB ceo- tbo aoto U.8. prodaetr tad marfcotor of PCBs (or almnot bolf a coatary io bootly propaganda*! tbo pobUc aboot too rool and baogtood gloriao of todatrtal tamlnatlan aren't lioUlod to thoao tiro tataa. la Franklin, Idaho, a poeltiy compaay la h the prooaaa of daotrop. _ log mom than toa.aoa contamlaeled chicken* and more tkan a million pot- oned Offla . la Clinton. Iowa, a packing compaay la daatroytog the moot hem It,tit men rhlrkaaa. all pyrekaood from the Idaho firm. In Richmond. Utah. PCB tracer hove been found !e 75.000 fraaan cakaa that alao moot ho daatrayad. In Billing*. Mont, federal health of ficial* ham coaoacgod oa a bag pro- dor Urn Aredor trad* aomo) In the au tumn at ltn. hut am amu It had p* ducad enough at lha teak ttguM to Hot m wUwawy. MoMMlb in cliimi it rocoot yooro that It ahnya was Monrt about tbo doafan poood by PCSi mi "boo modo ovary Sort" to boop tbo pobile taformod oboot tbo hoar*. But wbao tbo tbnot oI PClo wm (int dbcloood to toooorty !*?*> Mato uoto denigrato* tbooo rniiitt-- al "moro "poiitteai cborgoo mi a THI COMPANY oow bao a an ambittoot mi oopaotovo a tag compatp dotogood to 4 boworor. la tbo prodKt toot will banal too oottoa for moay docadn tocomo - PCBa. predict h auapoetod ad bahgj the iourto at the meat racam nalhriah ad wldeepcaud PCB mmamlaathn. try * aartkueat gaa** harem* lha Moutaaa nenpoay aoUa 100.000 to >00.000 pouada at animal load weekly thteagham WaalUnglaa, Oregon. Mon tana. Make, hflanaaota. North OakoU and Verb Dakota. The Phctda oapartanco. dmcrihad at the mid Oaplamhm anneal meeting at the American Chemical teddy, lad reeerchon to conclude mm U potcam of a group of mole reflag* otudaumhvaleed In the etady auffeeed hem hwctloaalatarUlty. Other adaatlata reportad at the American Chemical Society coneeouoa that tom of PCBa faU from the air each year into the Gnat Lake*. Pood Droducta cooflacatod. do* HONS 008014