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GREEN BAY press GAZETTE GREEN BAY, WIS. () 45,000 (S) 55,000 MAY 1 4 1975 / Cll,)tD IVI lBACONS) ' 1700 FDA Orders Disposal Of Contaminated Carp t MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Dis to eat the carp every day for posal of mi estimated 20,000 about three yean before high pounds of contaminated carp PCB levels might be measured fillets from Lake Pepin on the In his body. Mississippi River was report He said PCR,level* In game ed Tuesday by officials of the fish In Lake Pepin, a wide spot l U.S. Food and Drug Adminis- In die river between Red Wing tratlon. and Wabasha and about 70 J: Officials said the fish, which miles downriver from Minne belonged to a Wisconsin who- apolis and St. Paul have not t lesaler, was burled because it been thoroughly tested. contained concentrations of a ''We are not particularly con potentially cancer-causing In. cerned about the sport fisher du*trial chemical,^polychlori- man because of the low nun- - nated biphenyls, that exceeded "bar of flab caught and eaten federal guideline*. ' by an individual," Roberts said, adding that the FDA also FDA Director Henry Roberts said th* PCB concentration in has qo controls over fish caught for personal uar. the Ash flesh ranged from 6 to The contaminated carp had 14 parts per million. The fed been shipped to the East Coast eral guideline tor PCS in food for sale, Roberta said. The fish for human consumption Is five parts per million. were checked by FDA officials in New York and' then re Roberts said animal tests turned to Pepin, Wis., by Ru ' have shown high PCB concen dolph Hogue, a fish wholesaler trations to be a cause of can cer. , and owner of the shipment. Hogue estimated the value of ' The FDA director empha- the destroyed carp at between . staed that a perro woaldjmve ILS00 and 11.800.^/