Environment

Release of Carcinogenic Chemical Higher than Thought

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 11th, 2000

More than 20 years after the manufacture of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) was banned, the cancer-causing toxins are still entering Lake Michigan from sources on land, according to a U.S. federal study that challenges long held beliefs about the chemical.

Air tests indicate that the Chicago, Illinois, and Gary, Indiana, areas are major sources of PCBs going into the lake, said Glenn Warren of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Great Lakes National Program Office in Chicago. The findings came as a surprise to scientists who had long believed the lake's PCB load was decreasing, and the study suggests the same thing is happening in industrial areas throughout...

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