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OAKLAND TRIBUNE OAKLAND. CALIF () 204,000 <S) 232.000 rcimo py JUN 1 6 1975 diemical Poisoning Lake Fish; UNSING, Mich. (AP> - The Michigan Natural Hh . ''A ban is a drastic atop to ourcea Commission has take, but this is a drastic urgsd the Isgistaturs and tbs problem." said William Tur* nation to ban use and produc ney, director of water man* tion of a chemical contamlnat* cement for the Department ing ftsh in Lake Mtchigsn. of Natural Resources. The chemical, .ftalxchlod* There was no immediate response to the ban idea from nets. Tht vets was VI. - ,"W hope this sute will lead the nation in banning PCB," the commission Mid in a statement. Commission Chairman Carl Johnson said he sees ns alternative other than an outright boo. Fish in Lahe Michigan have PCB levels above tht limits . allowed by the U.S. Food and ' Drag Administration. ' Tht FDA has seized aorfie legislative traders. Chemical levels of DDT and most other chemical contami nants have declined in Michi gan since 1171, teste shew. But Turney raid level* of PCB in Lake Michigan have stayed the tame or increased in different nsh sampled. When PCB was first discov ered In Saginaw Bay in tNg levels of the chemical In cat(Mi were up to 3M parts per shipments of Chubb caught in tUke Michigan becauee PCB {1 levels were found to bmp to 30 parte per million. The FDA legal level It five ports pm* million. Human health canid be endangered at a level ef "We're not unique, other states, if they taka a look at it, will discover that they have similar levels to contend ^with," said Howard Tanner, director of the DNR. Mlparta per million, the FDA PCBe appear In a wide range ef products, from papsr to hand man. The eolt u.S. manufacturer is Monsanto Chemical Co. of ft. Loris. The company agreed in the early liras to stop selling PCB for some industrial ueee. But the chemical has since been sold for other industrial commercial and houaebold HONS 031133