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UYRUE. SUN NWS 0. 6,100 SC` JAM 27 1976 *" Monsanto to Stop Making PCBs s, LOUIS (UP!) -- Monsanto Co. Monday sought to head off environmentalists' efforts to ban a group of toxic chemicals known as PCPs by announcing It will phase out production of them. Monsanto is the sole maker of PCB, or polychlorinated bi phenyl. which is used primarily as a nonconductor of direct electrical current. The chemical has been a necessary ingredient in most power-generating equipment. Environmental groups had petitioned the federal government to lower the permissible levels of PCBs In food on grounds the chemicals arc a cancer hazard. ,, HONS 032128