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PCB^Packaging Presence to Recycled Cardboard Hm Food and Drug Adminis contrition was In only mm sam, ivu, prossu, potato crops, cere tration haa found the in ple and the FDA didn't find ali, baking mixes, dried milk, dustrial chemical PCB in soma enough contaminated samples to `dessert mixes, unfavored gela shredded whaat, spaghetti din justify seizure. tin, cookies, rice,.chocolate and ners, com meal, mixed baby ca The FDA said the contamina icocoa products, grated cheese, real, grit*, not di# dinners and tion originated In containers dried fruits and from juices, all pancaae mix. made from rocclod cardboard. 'of which are boxed in recycled In one. sam >to of shredded 1%o recyclers apparently used wheat, the PCB concoatrstioa a PCB-treated carbonless dupli waa 48 times tha safety level eat cating paper, the FDA said. Information Scant by fodaral' guidelines. In other food* tha coooastratlon raged Tolersnee Level Sot John T. Walden, press officer for the Food and Drug Adminis from toil than tha fedtral guide line to four times the level, the FDA said yesterday. PCBs, short for polychlorinat ed biphenyls, have caused liver damage and birth defects In lab tration said: "The truth is our scientists--and no scientists-- know about PCBs or what to do The FDA announcement came oratory rodents. Although harm about it." altar publication of an article on to human beings has not been "This all leads us to why we tha PCB threat in yesterday'a proved, the FDA haa established called together these five agen editions of Tha Star. ' a tolerance level of 5 parts per das of government to look at tha Tha agency haa seieed none of mtlHon PCBs (or edible tissue in problem." the products. la the case of tha meat, fish and poultry. IBs reference was to a recent shredded wheat, an FDA spokes Hm agency said it was testing ly established joint federal task man explained that the high con- crackers, breed crumbs, meca- force on PCBs. "We don't know whore It comae from ... We don't know once it gets Into the body what its problem might bo." PCBs have triggered an out break of liver ana akin In Japan aod have MU chick embryoa U laboratory exportaunts. 032549 HONS