. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The current report says that detectable levels of dieldrin, oxy- :hlordane and heptachlor epoxide ivere found in the milk of a majority of nursing mothers: diel- drin in approximately 80 percent of all milk samples, heptachlor epoxide in roughly 63 percent, and oxychlordane in 74 percent of all samples. Heptachlor was found in less than two percent of the sampled milk. No chlordane or Mirex was observed in any of the samples. The average detectable amounts of these pesticides found in the women's milk were extremely small. The mean
. Cranberries; : the national cranberry magazine. Cranberries. The current report says that detectable levels of dieldrin, oxy- :hlordane and heptachlor epoxide ivere found in the milk of a majority of nursing mothers: diel- drin in approximately 80 percent of all milk samples, heptachlor epoxide in roughly 63 percent, and oxychlordane in 74 percent of all samples. Heptachlor was found in less than two percent of the sampled milk. No chlordane or Mirex was observed in any of the samples. The average detectable amounts of these pesticides found in the women's milk were extremely small. The mean level for dieldrin in the fatty part of milk was 164 parts per billion (ppb). (A part per billion is roughly comparable to one inch in 16,000 miles.) The mean level for heptachlor epoxide was 91 ppb, and the mean level for oxychlor- dane was 96 ppb. Health experts at EPA and among the milk study contractors believe that these low levels pose no immediate health hazard to either mothers or their newborn children. However, the possible long-term consequences of these minute amounts are uncertain. All of these pesticides have been curbed to one extent or another by EPA primarily because they are suspected to be human cancer lagents. Dieldrin, heptachlor, and chlordane have been prohibited for most uses including all food crop luses. The program's purpose is to provide a nationwide picture of the prevalence and quantities of certain pesticides in human milk. The data now form a baseline against which future fluctuations in these pesti- :ide levels may be measured. EPA GRANTS AIR FORCE PERMIT TO BURN SOME HERBIDE ORANGE AT SEA The Environmental Protection Agency has approved a Air Force request to burn one shipload, roughly 800,000 gallons, of the controversial weed and brush killer "Herbicide Orange" aboard a special incinerator ship at an iso- lated site in the Pacific Ocean. The decision should mark the beginning of the end for the million gallons of the herbi
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