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Our nftrmee: |/*13 Your nffermmt UonsantoChaiioale Ltd 10-:8 Victoria Straat London BW1 MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE, FISHERIES AND FOOD Fisheries laboratory, Remembrance Avenue B URNHAM-ON-jCaoucH, Essex Telephone: Bunikamon-Crouch 3258 2-' Icvamber %9$S For tha attar.tion of 'ir T J IBunt Soar Sirs In co-operation with our colleagues a', tie Department of Agrlcultureand Fisheries fcr Sootlaad, we have sinoe 1966 monitored the distribution of orgar.ochloriaa rea. iuaa in marine organ) ens, inoluding fish and shellfish taken for human consumption* From this investigation it has beoome evident that polychlorinated-biphenyls era widely distributed in marina organisms including fish ant shellfish. As s result of the discovery of high concentrations of KB's in dsad guillsnots in the north Irish See, the programme of monitoring osrxied.hut by tha two departments has been intensified. Ike current programme includes the examination of hiring and sprats (whloh foxei the maim food of these hlrds) from a number of plaoaa around the United Kingdom. Iheee investigations could he assisted fay further knowledge of how these substances reach the sea, and are taken up iy fish. 1 understand that a large proportion of the PC2'e oommeroially used in this country are manufactured or oompoundad fay Monsanto. I sould therefore be glad of aqr aeeu star.oa, whlofc your oonpany oould give, on the possible routes by sfaioh these si/factaneea may be entering the sea, either during manufacture or through their use by ..iduetry. Our sampling programme could he ooneidsrably reduced if you oould indicate the areas or esfeiarlea of mavor production or use fay industry. I ;c ild be glad :'cr ary further ..nfomoio.i relating to the movement of themateriala in r.otu -al cnvir: rr.er.t, vmich nay nave a bean . on our investigations. Yours faithfully P ; #oob MOWS 090519