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AMUM Matb WMI i wunson.'msc.^ ? o. ajnsmJmrjm \ MAY 23 1989 Kltoroinifis S'Sgo* PS A By ROBERT C. BJORKLUNDfing. The Madison hearings the questions is this: evenjman, noted that sediment is a-the National Academy of Sci-' (SMiMFnttM) {ended Wednesday after nearly tbougi the minute amounts of.poDutant in water, but "the eoces on the amount of persis-] Top scientists of the OrutcdpO days oHestirocoy. ' [these chemicals m your food arejwbole Mississippi Vaiicy was tant pesticides in the environ*! Sates Department of Agricul-j Irving noted -that the major .not going to kill you, what aboutjformed with pollution before we'mcnt and what it means in rela-- tire (USDA) were ccpyraod|qnestion of the Madison hear-]yoor children and your dal- came over here when the dirt]tion to hazards to public health, greatly with the DOfTtariags htgs'coDcerned nmoff pollution dren*s dfldrenV* be codinued.jw ashed away from the failkagricutture, to fish and wildlife.! (in Macfisoo according to testi-j and the problems it could cause]] Irviog said that the answer sides." The study also was concerned jmony released Thursday. ia Lake Michigan and in other]j*is most impooderablc, but is] With all the pollution hysteria,,with alternate methods of ?st! Dr. G. W. Irving Jr., artnwfc- waterways, {being played 19 for a fair-ihee-Iaccording to Whitten, it is a lit- control, such as the organophos-i Itrator of the Agricultural Re- "Perhaps the major part of [well by the people who oppose tie fihe banging of the witches at phales, a class of chemicals that Isearch Service, told a HooseAp- the damage caused by these [the use of these chemical sjSalem. [do not last as long as DDT, but Upropriatioos subcommittee that agricultural chraricab is due to (DDT),*' . j Irving answered, qroddy, that are more dangerous because' if Wisconsin should find that accidents and to misuse, rather Rep. Jamie L. Wtotten (D-jthe witches at Salem' were not`they arc more potent. j DOT is a pollutant It would nul than to the trace amounts we IMiss.) complaned that the pub-ihanged, but were burned. "With] Anderson said tbat the report lify (he use of DDT in the state,' are talking about," he coctin- fie was going overboard on the the present anti-pollution tows, from the academy was expected ` Tins dedsioo is now in the!ued. {matter of poQution and as a re-j(the Department) of Health, Ed-jduriug May and the Agriculture Ihaods of the Wisconsin Depart- 'At the stage of our scientific!suit eve^r department and ration, and Welfare woeddn'tjDepartxnest then would have1 [men!of Kataral Resources![capacity today it is snpossMe][agency m government was usinghet them do it now." {"an evaluation to what it means' winch las hundreds of pages of] to bring condasivc evidence tojthe issue to get more money apdj Dr. R. J, Anderson, associatelbeforc taking action ooe way orj litestimony and a stack of evi- jbear on either ooe side of the!to stir ap more projects. " to Irving, referred to fire pend- another on possible elimination] jdence on which to base its find-f[other of this controversy. One oft Whitten, srtxonuoittee chair-ling release of the study made by(of these BesUeirfoR * . ' HONS 0 2 9 0 0 4