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48-31 THE FRH MAT Kim DEC 1975 ih ; NFI calls for ban on polychlorinated biphenyls The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) has called for an immediate ban on "further sale, production, importation, or recycling of poly chlorinated hiphptvyjft" a. family ni industrial chemicals commonly known as PCBs. This is necessary, according to the NFI, because the danger to the na tion's food supply and fishing in dustry from the PCBs is "too great to ignore." NFI executive director Lee j. Weddig, although saying the present damage to the overall fishing indus try is small, has outlined a program to eliminate PCBs from the environJment. He calls for a ban on PCB ; ; production, a nationwide system to I dispose of existing chemicals, and | passage of laws to control other [chemical pollution. , Weddig also asks that the current 'FDA tolerance level of 5 ppm of PCB Iin fish be retained and that compen sation be provided for those com* imercial fishermen whose livelihoods are destroyed because they can't sell fish containing more PCB than al lowed by FDA standards. ^ HONS 032966