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(Bnialia rrulil OMAHA, NEBR. (MORNING) M,, 125.376 SUN. 273.394 19 975 ! Officials: Curtail Use * Of Water Pollutant , cmuw U+umn Mrvin. Precautions Chicago - An Interstate com- Several steps have been tak mlttee of environmental offi- en as public health pre dels stopped short of recom cautions: mending a lotal ban on poly --The FDA recently forced e chlorinated biphenyl (PCB) In Pepin, Wis.. fish processor to dustrial chemicals, but con bury 20,000 pounds of PCB- cluded that their use should be tainted carp fillets after detect curtailed. , 1 ing levels as high as 14 parts Recent research has shown per million (ppm). The carp that PCBs can prevent repro duction in fish, birds and mam mals, and may have similar ef had been taken from Lake Pe pin. a broad reach of tha Mis sissippi downstream from Min fects on humans. The Lake Michigan Toxic neapolis epd St. Paul. Minnesota health officials Subsume--Committee decided .dvi^ .port, fl.hermm, tom. illppionlyin.-k ^5ie'hube.fti?nmwe <com-i ' -WtKoneln h--Ith official, P""d .tried a ottcM-wealt limit to USJ.s..jttds," --Id Karl Bremer, Environmental Protectli Agency (EPA) official am member of the committee. Donald Mount, director of tl EPA National Water Quallt; FiJSTwSS, ft? 3Uboratory In Duluth, hai lnl consumption of large salmon and trout (over 24 inches long) from Lake Michigan and Green Bey, end all fish from a 60-mile stretch of the Mississippi from P^resco^tt. W,is,.2..mto|,,lolwtreKr cUhke j ) ; i formed the *|ency that tM the Fox Rwtr portae, j committeeWii. Children ind.pregnent ! vmm ,,remenufecturera of electrlcej cautioned to eat trenriormer* end --ppciura U ^ ^ "usePCBs. . -The Wisconsin Department Fal Accurauiatloa PCBs ere used as insulatinj oJf cA^grmiculeturrecsiaaidl iftishwocounld- nul-.-fl-tlct-r, for aln|n^or,,h.n5ppm. ' and adhesives and as fire-rasii urn electrical fluids. Michigan environmental These compounds pervade officials urged the Michigan the global environment, finding Legislature ;and Congress to their way into lakes end rivers outlaw theueeof PCBs. and accumulating in the fat of Illinois health and environ fish. mental officials are studying takUerngferolmakUe ktreouMt icahnidgasnalhmaovne ZLEfJ01**" but have not contained as much as 9b parts rfS*.?11 url* ctlon, of PCB per million - 10 times g1* Anthony 9*". director of the levefthe Food and Drug Ad- iCOn**rv*l"*!: * . ministration toieritet for hu* culbeeh man consumption. Monsanto Chemical Co., the PCB-contaminated fish have ! Mia American manufacturer of beei^caught in the upper Mis-: PCBs, has cut back voluntarily sjssipp), Ohio and Hudson Riv- 00 PCB ules since 1970. The ers as well as the Fox and Mil- chemicals, however, still ere waukee Rivers in Wisconsin. (Produced widely in Europe end said Gilman Veith of the water 1. ,laboratory. ; Despite the drop in Mon- "Generally, wherever you i**dto'* production. PCBs in have industrial concentrations, Michigan and other bod- you wilt find PCB con- ]* of water have not decrvued lamination of fish," he said. (appreciably in (he past five Dow Chemical Co. is trying to develop a substitute chemical.