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MILWAUKEE. JOURNAL MILWAUKEE, WISC. D. ar.u,00: SUN. 543,992 JUN 1 6 197S &U. PCB Level Fish Was Known, f' From pan 1 Lake Pepin because of exces Official Says sive levels of PCB. Brown said the FDA had no Minneaplols, Ml a n. -AP- acted earlier to stop the inter The US Food and Drug Admin* state sale of tha fish because it iteration nyi the lergeit flsh had notbeen clear whether tha wholesaler on Lake Pepin, agency had jurisdiction. How knew since January, 1971, that ever, he said the US Supreme carp taken from the lake con* Court ruled in February that talned excessive amount* of tha FDA does have Jurtsdlctlor the industrial chemical PCB. over additives such as PCB, Darryl Brown, laboratory which ara not intentionally chief for the Minneapolis of added during processing of food. fice of the FDA, said the agen cy had periodically inspected1 Hogue In May asked for an Investigation by Minnesota fish being shipped by Rudolph! and Wisconsin pollution offi Hogue, owner of Lake Pepin cials to find the source of the Fisheries, Pepin, Wls. pollution In Lake Pepin, a wid Brown said last week that a ening of the Mississippi River tast by the FDA in January, bordering the two states. 1971, showed 40 parts per mil- Hogue refuse* to comment 'lion of polychlorinated, W- when asked why he had not K` pi (PCS) in fish which pressed for action to clear up e had taken from Lake the pollution problem when ha p a p i n. The federal limit on first learned of It In 1971. PCB is 4 ppm. . Seven federal and state t FDA tests In mld-1979 showed 10 and 7 ppm of the chemical in the fish taken by Hogue, Brown eeid, and a July, agencies are now trying to find the source of the pollution through water end fish moni toring. J974, teat showad 10 to is ppm. Last month the FDA pre vented tha Interstate shipping and sals of 30 tone of carp Hogue had taken mostly from Turr/lo Flth, M|< 4, cel. 8 * HONS 031179