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Michigan residents has been exposed to low levels of polybrominated biphenyol (PBB) for the past four years. A more toxic relative of the federally-banned chemical PCB, PBB entered the Michigan food chain through state-distributed feed grain. Thousands of cattle and 1.5 million chickens have been killed or maimed by the disease. Others have been quarantined, dying slowly of PBB-related diseases. But many animals were sold before the state realized the danger. Over 10,000 people in the state, mostly farmers, now have traces of PBB in their bodies that exceed the danger level for cattle...
...most obvious of the myriad industrial dangers to which workers are exposed. One in four workers in the United States is exposed to some serious occupational hazards. The portion of the American public that comes into contact with hazardous substances leaked into the environment is not known. The level of most chemicals in the environment does not exceed the tolerance levels established by the FDA. However, many of these legally safe levels can become dangerous when they remain in the environment for long periods of time, penetrate the food chain and accumulate in the human body...
...ailments. Halbert, suspecting that his feed grain was impure, sent grain samples to state laboratories. The labs failed to find anything unusual, so he sent samples to labs outside the state, where researchers finally determined that the sample was laced with PBB. The FDA stepped in, setting the maximum level of PBB in cattle at 1 part per million (it was later dropped to 0.3 ppm). Last year, the state lowered the limit to .05 ppm for dairy cows being sold for meat...
...much PBB was in his remaining cows because the state only requires them to be tested in they are going to be sold for meat. If he were selling their milk, the state would test the milk in bulk--combining all the milk in the herd and measuring the level...
...rest of the cast does the job with style, helped along by Clarissa Bushman's effective choreography in the big numbers like "Company" and "Side by Side by Side," and by David Moore's split-level set, complete with one area for each couple. Everything--the costumes, the set, the backdrop--is done in early-'70s eclectic, but it works, save for a few stylized, overly cute New-York-skyline flats...