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mSPAmRTANBURG. S. C. l). 40.500 OCT 3 1976 $4c South Carolina Company To Stop Using PCB Fluid I COLUMBIA, S.C. (APT-The KBs, but has a longer Ufe and KB contamination has caused moral manager of a company is less hazardous to the envi a lowering of property values Out produces power capacitors ronment. Some is in use now, and a loss in profits to busi for electric utilities saia Thurs he said. nesses along the lake. day the firm will stop using Health officials In South KBs began to be suspected !*CH insulating fluid Nov. 1, Carolina and Georgia have of having undesirable charac and that it will be only a mat warned that eating fish taken teristics in 1970, leading to re ter of Ume before I*CB produc from take Hartwell, located on search into safer fluids, said tion ia hailed altogether. the SouthCaraltafrGcorgia line, Keith. Edisol. which is less tox R.H. Keith of the Greenwood may be hazardous because of ic, is one of several alterna plant of Pittsburgh baaed high levels of PCBs. tives that have been tested, he , MeGraw-Ediaon Co., said his Keith said PCBs are sus said. firm* la converting from KB* pected cancer causing chem McGraw-Edinon's customers (polychlorinated biphenyls) loa icals. Other dangers to individ are utility companies such as more environmentally safe uals are birth defects and skin Duke Power Co. and South fluid named Edisol. rashes, he said. Carolina Electric and Gas Co. Company officials made the he said, announcement simultaneously A $1 billion suit has been Initial reaction to Edisol t news conferences In Colum filed against the Monsanto Co. amongMcGraw-Edisen's utility bia and Pittsburgh. . of St. l,ouis and the Sangamo company customers has been Keith said Congress has <leetric Co. of Pickens, S.C., good, but there Is still wide use . Kmwd legislation that would by Lake Hartwell property n production of the highly owners In Georgia and South toxic KBs by 1971. He said theCarolina. legislation is awaiting Presi Sangamo, which uses KBs dent Ford's signature. manufactured by Monsanto, Hr laid Edisol, developed by has been identified as a source of PCBs, he said. the Dow Chemical Co., costs of KBs found in the lake. about 25 per cent more than The properly owners say the HONS 051U1