Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - August 22, 1981, Winnipeg, Manitoba fret Agen stand on chemical by Hilts the Washington Post Washington top administrators at the environmental Protection Agency have reversed the stance of their Agency experts on the safety of a chemical that May he used to fumigate fruit in California in the fight against the Mediterranean fruit last Epa proposed to ban most uses of the Ethelette dibromide because it causes cancer and birth defects in the Epa staff estimated then that about two persons in across the nation would probably get cancer be cause of the chemicals use on Dif Ferent the additional risk to the country if All California Citrus were fumigated was put at five cancer cases per 000 in a document recently prepared by Epa several thousand cancer cases might be expected to result an Epa staff member the new truth a top pesticide administrator who asked not to be identified said the Agency now takes the position that the chemical is Safe for widespread use without any special he said he Felt staff estimates of the risk were 50 times too High and that a More accurate estimate would be closer to one cancer Case per million or he said that considered very Low on the scale of regulated was acceptable when compared with the economic losses California could face if its crops were not fumigation has already begun in mostly using a chemical world comety related to but somewhat less toxic and far More expensive to ethylene dibromide is used chiefly for Citrus plums and grown extensively in other pans of californian Central but Only in Small amounts in the five counties quarantined so far be cause of the me Fly the use of ethylene dibromide to increase if spraying extends to the rest of the Central the pesticide administrator said he also disagreed with staff scientists Over whether special precautions should be taken if there is a massive fumigation program in the staff said that at least six Days should elapse Between the time the sprayed fruit is shipped and when it reaches the mar Ket a move that would keep the fruit off the Market for an extra four or five the chemical gradually evaporates from within the fruit Over that if it we rent held the Epa staff said its risk estimate would have to be revised the said that Normal shipping times would be sufficient to help reduce the amount of chemical in die and no extra time is Joseph project manager for work on the stood by the staff we think our estimate is As accurate As possible based on the Epa estimates that failure to use the chemical for fumigation in California could result in a an ambulance attendant Indianapolis a four Mill children were shot to death yesterday As they Lay Side by Side on a bed in the basement of their and their Mother and grandmother were killed a few blocks police arrested the youngsters divorced father on six what happened to my what happened to my King mumbled As police took his Finger homicide Tim Foley said police found several on the Wall with religious overtones at the Home where the ranging in age from one to lived with their father since he was granted custody in the divorce three weeks religious writings a reporter at the scene said a sign on the basement door read the family that prays together stays the oldest King Edward in addition to being shot through the had a defence Type wound in his said Charles Marion county chief Deputy the other children were identified As Kingston the body of Bells was found sprawled in a parking lot about eight blocks from Bells police the body of Bells Mary Alice was discovered in a Home across the Street from the police homicide detective Robert Hoke said a seventh Clarence bar was he said who was reported to be Bells was in Hospital and was expected to study suggests leukaemia virus in cows milk could affect Man by Victor Conn the Washington Post a leukaemia virus commonly found in Dairy cattle can be transmitted in cows milk to at least one other animal Spe and in the test tube to human according to scientists at the University of the who reported the find Ings yesterday in the weekly journal noted that it is Safe to drink particularly that which has been As is virtually All milk sold in the United i do feel infants should not be fed raw milk from infected said Jorge the reports chief people drink raw milk in Many coun Ferrer said americans and others who drink pasteurized milk face Only a Small possible risk of contracting leukaemia from the Bovine the risk is far he by milks enormous nutritional Bene people have been drinking milk from infected cows for Many yet leukaemia remains relatively rare in human he Luke or cancer of the blood forming accounts for of human Robert National Institute agreed with Fer re in examination of Dairy hundreds of cases of leukaemia and thousands of human Sera or blood Gallo no one has Ever found any or bodily to Bovine virus or any other proof of human Ferrer noted that methodology has not been sophisticated enough to Rule out the possibility of some human and said More study is need Gallo called the Bovine virus an important Model for the Way one or More human viruses might conceivably work in helping to cause leukaemia in it has Long been known that viruses can cause leukaemia in Chick mice since the late but existence of a human Luke Mia virus has not been Many including we do find leukaemia is due to a Ferrer i believe this increases the Chance that in humans it is also caused by a Ferrer and colleagues at the univer sity of Pennsylvania school of Veteri nary Medicine Are working on a Luke Mia vaccine to protect cattle Blue number 6 discovered on 6thplanet from the Sun by William mines Chicago Sun times scientists can literally count on the spacecraft voyager 2 has disco voyager project scientist Edward Stone of the California Institute of technology said yesterday the space still millions of Kilometres from the has detected a Bright Blue feature on Saturn in the shape of the number covering an area of the giant planets Clou tops roughly the size of the United no one had a Good scientific explanation of what caused the which was not seen by voyager 1 As it flew past last but Garry Hunt of University had a Tongue in Cheek explanation that owes More to numerology than to More orthodox the figure 6 is Hunt because Saturn is the sixth planet out from the Hunts theory was greeted with laughter at a briefing that marked the Start of the last Dee space spectacular planned by the for Al most five after voyager 2 lips past Saturn there will be a e photo voyager image of Saturn oort Turq million Kilometre stows Clow Polar from hiatus in planetary exploration until the same spacecraft flies past the planet uranus Early in the next few culminating tuesday night when voyager 2 makes its closest approach to will be action packed Stone at cd yesterday one Hundred hours before rendezvous voyager was about million kilo metres from approaching the planet at the Speed will increase gradually to a maximum of tuesday when the spacecraft zips past Saturn just 000 Kilometres above its Bright the moment of closet approach is cd better pictures scientists Here reaffirmed an ear Lier belief that the Aidicon television picture tube in the voyager s telescopic camera is of higher Quality than the one on voyager which failed to detect much weather in Saturn atmosphere last the planets entire surface As seen then had a blandness that was in Surpris ing contrast to the turbulence of the other solar system but in addition to this improvement in picture taking scientists believe there May actually be More activity in Saturn High atmosphere Why this should be so they do not but for evidence of in creased they Point to d the curious figure to which looks something like a giant Tornado Welling up from lower Levels of the thick saturnian Cloud q several Blu Green swirls of a fees big enough engulf the earths p Jet streams that move sinuous by across the top of the planets Atmo sphere in a 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