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THE NEW YORK TIMES Saturday, April 11, 1970 Page 31, Section L CURB URGED IN USB OF PGB CHEMICAL; i . -- . . Ryan Asks a Partial Ban on Substance in Pesticides By DAVID BIRD j An. Industrial chemical called) Thfc' ir.atarial also hr.5 ;r.-.* PCB, which is chemically sirai-j ability to imoart flexibility i j Jar to DDT, has worried scieu-; .other materials. As such u . tists for soma time because,. stirred the attention of ' like DDT, it is persistent and Monsanto officials wr.o ...c; ' can hamper the reproductive to promote its wioer u-uv ' .' capacity of animals. About 1S60 the cc;v[).uiy sued a 50-page catalogue sug J Yesterday Representative; gesting a wide varioiy o* vas . William I7. Ryan, Democrat of! for PCB in such thing?: ;-s b; `.- !. ' ' Manhattan, called for a partial ban---and even a total ban--on at least), perhaps! the uso' tle . coatings, pesticides :ioj plastic containers. The cataioguewas withdrawn ' 1 . ' ' ' ' , iafcbtptoafoohhneenfoPeedesMndbmC'tnPie-inDacrDCSci.invctBsede',roaeaTtRpselu.lsegisssamydtraeh.riaAaygrtmnomnyniHdandr.,ectemtegideobnwiifantnao?halntiCeolrosesbvstBfl'oiyreepyta,AlostcaicgittlsaoylshatrtclofneiallocelhguefturdlefsodoFlettrhouhtfsihnoeooareiened:-rnsrt!.!!1 .','MnctaePmaarloobonCroaT"eBtsodnStnlheUcy'lusba'ebtpdaIteigwihniinrcsaecPdaogtomuraosasw.mysoli.psseepfcarbssdaemgiaaeeeercelnidunenfnooayocsvtmgtrgihhrigfdroitmeoceyefaoP,npecfdnonumCenliMoynnsldSlectoopedsohnkdowfniitntrasfptaititnhg*arlsoi.stagncciet1dbtfoholv.iliurnss.'i..h"stt-.t- * , - atad biphenyls, is made in this! country only by the Monsanto Company. Officials at the com dosed systems, but Mr. Pap.t- 'gcorgo said ha though it whs still- probably being used " pany's St Louis headquarters, said yesterday that the com caulking materials around win dows In -bfg buildings" becauou pany had been making the it was so flexible and lont;- . chemical for 40 years and that lasting. > it had'only been recently that The. company said it had Monsantonasrealized the Joined in urging that PCB he - possible danger from PCB. binped from use in pesticides. Monsanto aaid that PCB was developed for use in closed sys tems,. which would keep it out 1 of ,'pqhtect * with tho environ * meat One of Its major uses is as an' taiulating fluid In large > eiestytgal transformers.: . < HONS 031347