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MILWAUKEE, WlSC. ,, 169,011 6may 1969 (7 )' ^ lr i rt 9 -S_ "EETi i; -.71 <?"! /..*! I Swedish Sdmfmti' By QUINCY DADISMAN Sentinel Staff Writer | Madison, Wis. - A Swedish scientist testified here Monday Ithat many babies get double the recommended maximum daily dose of DDT if they are breast-fed. I i S. Goran Lofroth, chairman :of a s i x member committee jw h i c h studies DDT for the (Swedish national research .'council, told of his findings during a Wisconsin natural re source department hearing on a petition for an order that would ban use of DDT in the state. ' DDT FIGHTERS ASK AID By Sentinel Staff Writer Madison, Wis. - Orrie L. Lbucks, a University of Wiscon sin faculty member and local spokesman for the Citizens Natural Resource association (CNRA) said Monday that the' group needs an additional $25,000 to carry on its battle' against DDT in Wisconsin. . "* Loucks said the association already has raised $37,000 and spent $35,000 in bringing about the natural resource depart-. ment hearing on a petition calling for a virtual ban on the use of DDT in Wisconsin. Miss Bertha Pearson, of Wausau, CNRA treasurer, was1 named to receive contributions in Wisconsin and the nation al Audubon society's Rachel Carson Fund, New York, N. Y., to accept gifts from national donors. ' In Change Range Lofroth, a radiobiologist and toxicologist, said, "In my opin to 10% which cows secrete in milk. had increased since it had been shown that babies are general ion, many breast-fed children Lofroth said he based h i s ly healthier when fed human ingest more than the recom opinion on the amount of milk milk, mended daily intake''(of DDT). consumed by babies in rela He pointed out that many It is in the range where labora tory animals show pharmacodynamical changes. "What these changes mean tion to body weight; that on the average, a baby would get .02 milligrams of DDT daily for each kilogram of body weight; babies are fed human milk by bottle rather than being direct ly breast-fed. . is not known. One cannot pre that the World Health Organi Long Wrangle diet the consequences if these zation, a United Nations scien Lofroth's testimony fol ! and similar changes work in : man and one does not know what the future holds for per tific agency, had said that no one of any age should ingest more than .01 milligram of lowed a .long vPrangle over "whose witness this man is." sons exposed to that much DDT per kilogram of body He said he had come to the DDT." weight daily. ' hearing at t h e invitation of Lofroth based his opinion, He said that fewer and few Robert S. McConnell, an assist he said, on research that had er American babies were fed ant attorney general and the shown that a woman secretes human milk before 1966, with state's public intervenor, but' in her milk 125% of her daily intake of DDT and its chemical the percentage dropping from 38% in 1946 to 18% in 1966, that his travel expense was relatives, contrasted with the 2 but that use of mother's milk being paid b the Environmen tal Defense Fund (EDF). EDF is represented here by Victor J. Yannacone, jr., i t s general counsel, who is con ducting the case for the peti tioners in the hearing, the Citi zens Natural Resource associa-. tion and the Wisconsin chapter' 1 of the Izaak Walton league. , Yannacone tqld the hearing , Examiner Mauricd Van Susteri-ep, however, that Lofroth was. . not his witness.C "If I called him," Yannacone said, "I would know what he J intended to say. I don't know ^what he plans to say."  No Pay Provision McConnell said he had asked EDF to pay for Lofroth's appearance because there was , no provision in state law for the public intervenor's office to pay witness expenses. Willard S. Stafford, attorney i for the task force for DDT of i the N a t i o n a 1 Agricultural 1 Cehmicals association, object* i ed to the basis for Lofroth's testimony. Lofroth had ap peared at t h e witness stand ' with a stack of 56 documents, < : reprints of various scientific . papers, newspaper clippings j - and other materials, on which ' ; he said he had based his views': ; about DDT. . ' ,, ` -He was called because the , Swedish poison and pesticide council, as a result of a study ' made there, banned the use of ? DDT in Sweden for household insecticides and has ordered a ' moratorium of two years on . _ any use of the insecticide while < a . study is made of its effects, i ' The Swedish agency empha, sized in a press release issued ; at the time the ba' n was or- .{ Turn t.o Pa.ee'7: Col. 2 ' 5 DDT -Swedish Ban Told ! Continued From Page 5 more hazardous materials than dered that it was making its could be used in Sweden. ruling on the basis of condi Lofroth said the committee:, of which he is chairman had tions existing in Sweden and not yet made a final report on said its decision should not be its study of scientific literature, taken as holding for the entjre about DDT. ; world. Stafford's argument, made- Has Little Need under the "Lewandowski doc The press release pointed trine," was that each paper; out that Sweden has little need for insecticides and that condi- used by Lofroth should separately evaluated. be' j t i o n s in other parts of the w0rid.might..require use of [The Lewandowski doc-j trine was enumerated by the ] Wisconsin supreme court in } > u - - -* --'--c-.* . C-.'- .4^ ' t. vl_. . 1966. It calls for scientific, data to be evaluated at the. time it is presented. It set rules for what can be con sidered as recognized scien tific knowledge.] Finally, McConnell w i t hdrew the stack of `documents. Earlier, the hearing had in cluded a course in elementary poultry husbandry as Yannacone led Frank Cherms, poul try geneticist at the University of Wisconsin, through an ex planation of the mechanics of reproduction in poultry. Cherms had testified last week that, in his opinion, DDT does not cause thin shelled eggs, at least in poultry. This was one of the charges laid against the pesticide by con servationists. . DSW 201016 STLCOPCB4059080