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fhk,^ Japan Chemical Week - I Maximum Tolerable Limit tix major imhore or inland fishing ground! are contamlnat- ' ed well over 3 ppm, he added. Of PCB Recommended Other critics considered tht . recommendttion far from ad- , According to the Council, the recommendation ie bated on lt official Invsstigsiion findings, through the Atcal 1968 nation al nutrition turvty findings. A predominant 3-4 per cent of the 72.4 mferagramt hat been equate beeaute of ito neglect of the pan PCB accumulation! in the bodiet of Japanese. Admitting the inadequacy of figuring* and assumptions, and attumed to come various official American re and shellfish. from fith local health authoritlea' analyilea) eapaeitiet, even an environ- ; ; > 1 j ference data. ' American research data con The Japanese people'! aver cerning the temi-acute and age dally PCB Inlake hat been chronic toxicity and 111 genetic figured at 73.4 mtcrogrema by effect* of PCB to far discover relating the average of PC8| ed through experiment* on mental Official of the Minietry aaid all what each Japanese can do to defend himself egaioet PCS contamination la to prefer offahore ftth to eooatal orvei at far at he can. ; ' , content icouncll imum through In food templet the examined, and the max possible PCB Intake foodstuff-ascertained mica thowed that, In human termt, 5 mlcrogrants per one kilogram of body waight, that It 250 microgrami for an l adult weighing to kUogramt Ie Mill To For PCB Build Tost Treatment Plonk permlttlble per day. To protect the humen body wcc_ . cc; f/. f 4, QottAQ* CPAraJ l (.) A PAPfiGaoRG* ?YX- For an average Japanese, that limit could ba ohttrvad it from environmental under a measure for pollution security hit dally ,flah and PCB (make through shellfish, the major guarantee of chemical products, the Ministry of International Itamt in the Japancaa meali, Trade and Industry has deeld- . it held down at ISO microgramt. In that cate, the max* Imum tolerable PCB content In fish And shellfish dally consum ` to build a pilot plant to recover and incinerate electric appliances such aa transformers and condcnsere, and preeeure 1 : i ' ed should ba 1.41 ppm. sensitive papers containing PCB ; (polychlorinated biphenyl) in co- 1 The 1.41 ppm figure hae operation with The Japan \ been the out down to 1 two different ppm and etandardt Electric lion. Manufacturers' Asaoeia- 1 1 have been tat for ofTthora inahore flth and thallflah cauae the offahore ftah thellAth ututlly eaten by Japanaae are three time* inahore typea. The council hat deferred and btand the the He! The pilot plant will ba construtted at the Environmental Pollution Resource* Research Laboratory, for completion this September. MITI. moreover, plant aatablilhmeni of a semi-governments! j i I : > decision on euch provisional i ttandarda applicable to preg*nant women and infanta due I new company to carry out re- covary and treatment of substances containing PCB, and 1 I , to It tboruga alto eaw of the raaearch data.! need for set study within of treatment this year. < technology . . ! ting similar standard* for mail* and vegetables. { Both the Council and the Health and Welfare Ministry cleimed the standards could bring good result* if properly applied through new surveil lance. guidance and conaulation measures to ba worked out in eboul a month. Dut the provisional recomcommendation and ita back grounds have invited an Intant surge of criticisms and complaints from numerous ob servers. A typical criticism was voic ed by Dr. K. Fujlwara, chief researcher at the Kyoto Muni cipal Public Health Institute he considered the 3 ppm limit set for inahore Ash as too high, Y I It should have been set at lets than 1 ppm since the Jap anese eat five to 10 times as much Ash end,shellfish at the Americans, plus many deriva tive foodstuffs, he asserted. He also wondered how ef fectively the Ministry expects the inadequately-equipped lo cal health authorities to do the PCB analysing Jobs. ' ' Fish and shellfish In-Japan's RONS 070961