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. ;.ri" y fsfowa liDsgesst JOURNAL IRISH INDEPENDENT DATE March 8, 197.1 PAGE Vi By Jeremy Bugler ATTEMPTS to prevent toxic indus trial chemicals from being dumped in the Irish Sea and other waters off these islands arc not succeeding.

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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.

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