Re: Where are the PCBs?

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• Subject: Re: Where are the PCBs?
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• Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 21:52:09 -0600 (MDT)
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Date: Mon, 20 Oct 1997 18:01:03 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Edward V. Phillips" <ed-at-alumni.caltech.edu>
To: tesla-at-pupman-dot-com
Subject: Re: Where are the PCBs?

"It is true that some PCB's (or more accurately, inevitable byproducts and
contaminants produced during the manufacturing process, like TCDD) are
carcinogenic. However, this becomes a signficant risk only if you are
exposed continuously, etc. The notorious problems come from people doing
things like using old PCB's as road oil to keep the dust down and workers
in plants where they were exposed in a occupational sense every day to
large quantities."
	The worst cases of "poisining" were in North Africa, where
transformer oil containg PCB was sold as cooking oil, and in (Wisconsin?)
where some of it got mixed up in cattle feed.
Ed

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