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Monsanto FROM - ,< NAM P -- LOCATION phone Jt H> Craddock - B3NA (4-4746) DATE SUBJECT May 19, 1983 Weekly Highlights - PCBs REFERENCE TO W. B. Papageorge EPA released recent data from their long term National Human Adipose Tissue Survey, with fanfare of a press conference, showing a "sharp decline" in the percentage of U.S. population having PCB levels greater than 3 ppm in their adipose tissue. The PCB tissue level declined from about 10% in 1977 to less than 1% in 1981. Previously, from 1972 to 1977, PCB tissue levels peaked, e.g., 2.7 to about 10%. The San Francisco Chronicle requested PCB toxicity and health infor mation to support a story regarding a "major explosion" in electrical apparatus in a high-rise building in San Francisco this week. However, no major nationwide news stories have reported this incident. /dg 0755133 TOWOLDMONOQ59818