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yH I. *1.1 33SS * 7 H n PCB's Ban Urged By HEW Official; GE incident Cited Dr. Theodore Cooper. Assistant Sec retary of Department of Health. Kd- 3> 3i HH ) rS i 1. - -H *-pS - t* ft err' jo-w ,i: ftflo S'*3 ft0o00c5f?t *3 to ri ^ IT ft ft ft 60 O 00 ftX ft -o ft OO 3 O ft 00 . ft w o 3 <1 eation k Welfare, m charge of the health activities of the department, is calling on Environmental Protection Agency to order an immediate halt to the* discharge of polychlorinated by phenyls (PCB's! in the waterways. The request was contained in a tetter z o Lancaster Chemical Buys termine If there Is a need for a standard for . PCB's In the nation's drinking water sup- I A Newark Site fora Plant ply. Dow Chemical Company, chief preduc- * er of the chemicals, also has been asked for < Lancaster Chemical Division of AZS Cor test data on chemical properties and thepe- poration. Caristadt. N.J., has bought a 3.2- tential bioactivity of PCB substitutes. i acre piant site at 660 FeDnghuyscn Avenue. The effectof PCB's on humans is still f last month to SPA Administrator Russell Newark, N.J. The traet includes 50.000 being studied, but laboratory tests have i Train, and made public last week alter Ceneral Electric Company was accused by New York's Environmental Conservation Commissioner Ogden Reid, of causing "ir reparable damage to the Hudson River" by discharge of PCB's into the river for the 3; 58 a; 73 \ square feet of manufacturing and ware housing facilities.' ' The company makes paper min detain ers, aikanolamide liquid detergent addi tives and wetting agents and emulsifiers for the asphalt paving Industry. shown the chemical to be fatal to fish eggs and possibly the cause of liver cancer in rats, and weight and hair loss in monkeys. Dr. Cooper described the chemicals to Mr. Train as "suspected cancer-causing chemi cals." j past twenty years. COOPER WANTS ACTION' Dr. Cooper, who is the government's top health authority, informed Mr. Train that "while the current state of our knowledge as to the biological activity of these sub stances is not complete, we feel that availa si Of V >< ' Lancaster win move its Carstadt manu facturing to the Newark plant, and plans are underway to expand the division's abil ity to make a more complete fine of organic surfactants. The Newark plant is expected to be in operation by January* 1916. says a spokesman. * New York Conservation Commissioner Reid has warned against eating fish taken from the Hudson, although the waters were declared fit for drinking by the State Health Department after testing the waters torn the Hudson and .Mohawk Rivers at eleven points. ble evidence Indicates that immediate ac tion should be taken to terminate the dis i charge of polychlorinated byphenyls. "Sueh action would be in the best inter ests of protection of (he public health and safety by eventually terminating PCB. PCB's Ban Urged Continued from Pago 3 ards to health involved in the spreading contamination from PCB's and has request ed the National Academy of Sciences to de Commissioner Reid filed a formal complaint against discharging the chemi cal in the Hudson by General Electric, dnd a departmental hearing on the complaint has been set for October 6. entry into the food chain and subsequent exposure to the American people." In a speech recently before the Wiscons in Department of Natural Resources. vO EPA's Director of Toxic Substances. Glenn Ln E. Schwietter. reported that the agency was giving close attention to potential haz- HONS 0 3 3 5 2 7 Continuod on Page 30