I've spoken to number of employees in the electrical departments at local
steel mills...they've always thought the PCB thing was a joke. Guys would
be soaked to the elbows in the stuff regularly, week after week, year after
year. Most of them are in their 80s now and perfectly healthy.
Phil
At 11:31 AM 3/11/99 -0000, you wrote:
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>Interesting report on Reuters, displayed on the Yahoo news pages yesterday.
>
>A 31 year study of GE employees exposed to PCBs showed no excess cancers -
>in fact, fewer than expected died of cancer.
>
>Maybe PCB containing components don't have to be treated as if they
>plutonium dust - just with reasonable care!
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>73
>
>Peter G3RZP
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