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THE NEW YORK TIMES Saturday, April 11, 1970
Page 31, Section L
CURB URGED IN USB
OF PGB CHEMICAL;
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Ryan Asks a Partial Ban on Substance in Pesticides
By DAVID BIRD
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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; `.-
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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 The cataioguewas withdrawn
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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.: . <
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