Polychlorinated Biphenyls and the Environment

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Interdepartmental Task Force on PCBs, 1972 - Biphenyl compounds - 181 pages
 

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Page 176 - SEC. 261. (a) The Secretary of Labor in cooperation with the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare shall provide, under this part, programs for needy persons who require work experience or special family and supportive services, as well as training, in order that they may be assisted to secure and hold regular employment in a competitive labor market. Such programs shall — "(1) provide...
Page 181 - ... restrict or prohibit the use or distribution of a chemical substance if necessary to protect health or the environment. If the Administrator found that a substance created an imminent hazard, he could ask the courts to restrain its use or distribution immediately. The Administrator would be authorized to issue standards for tests to be performed — and for results to be achieved from such tests — for various classes and uses of new substances. And he...
Page 177 - Secretary should establish tolerances for the use of colors in food, even though not found to be "harmless." The respondents point to §406 (a) of the Act which allows the Secretary to establish tolerances for poisonous substances added to food where the substance is "required in the production" of the food or "cannot be avoided by good manufacturing practice.
Page 170 - Chronic toxicity, uptake, and retention of Aroclor 1254 in two estuarine fishes. Bull. Environ. Contam. Toxicol.
Page 82 - ... Energy Management Commission Barry R. Bloom President, Central Research Pfizer, Inc. Irving Bluestone Vice President, Director United Auto Workers General Motors Division Edward E. David, Jr. President EXXON Research and Engineering Company Charles J. Hitch President Resources for the Future, Inc. C. Lester Hogan President and Chief Executive Officer Fairchild Camera and Instrument Corporation Alice Tepper Marlin Executive Director Council on Economic Priorities Claire Nader Independent Consultant...
Page 170 - LF STICKEL and FB COON. 1970. DDE and DDD residues correlated with mortality of experimental birds. In: Pesticides Symposia.
Page 143 - PCB- induced skin lesions were hyperplasla and hyperkeratosls of the epidermal and follicular epithelium following application of 118 mg of the three PCBs (5 times per week for 38 days) in the back skin of adult female New Zealand rabbits. Histopathology of the liver included ccntrolobular degeneration, centrolobular liver cell atrophy, focal necrosis, and cytoplasmic hyalin degeneration. PCB-induced kidney lesions were hydropic degeneration of the convoluted tubules and tubular dilation with the...
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