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w.:; ac* FEB 15 1375 1 (Testimony on PCBs is sharply different MADISONjWta. (AP) -- Banning dwuwgfpolychlorinated biphenyli (PCBs) was described Friday by electrical and paper Industrie* at huardoua teeconomic health. - ' But e University ofWisconsin profeeeor said levels ofthe tadc ' induetrial chemical! are building ep in human beingi and mow 1 of the food they eat. A federal official said an outriaht ban is essential If PCBa in the environment are to be reduced ft* eharpiy differing attitudes toward controlling tag-lasting ; and potentially harmful pollutants surfaced in testimony before the Assembly Environmental Quality Committee oo a bin by Rep. Mary Lou Munta. D-Madiaon. Her measure would prohibit the sale, manufacture oriaeof | the controvertlal chemical in Wisconsin after Feb. l,1177. r "You have to cut off the source," Karl Bremer, ao official of ` 0* Environmental Protection Agency's Chicago office, ; testified. 1 "ft* front-end approach fbaaningPQQl ultogelher) Is a practical approach In dealing with the PCS problem," be laid That would mean that nobody could turn on fluorescent light, refrigerator or television set because all have components i that now contaii PCBs, N. Ray Clark of Bridgeport, Can., j argued. . , Mrs. Munta introduced the bill at the request of the Natural . Resources Board * i She said one of her main concerns la tbe e/Tect PCBs might have on Lai* Michigan's commercial fishery. v - Lake trout, coho sabnon and chubs caught In the Great Lakes , have contained levde of PCBs exceeding the Food and Dny Administration's recommended Utterance limit of fivepartsper I million. Bremer said. K - MONS 033101