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...Michigan Farm Bureau, distributor of the grain, has compensated everyone whose herds exceeded the official tolerance level for PBB. The Farm Bureau is contesting in court all other claims, including those of people who believe PBB has caused them physical harm. The first litigation began over a year ago and has not yet been completed...
...PBB's trail runs throughout the state. Traces of PBB were found in samples of human breast milk in every major Michigan city. Doctors say every person in Michigan has traces of PBB in his or her tissues. No one knows what the ultimate effect of PBB on humans will...
State agencies in Michigan have exhibited remarkable bureaucratic inertia with the PBB crisis. Michigan officials tried to convince the public that the PBB problem was unimportant. Fred Fry, an assistant to the Michigan Speaker of the House, said "State officials issued press releases consistently underestimating the scope of the problem." Fry added that the FDA encouraged the state to conceal the problem...
Velsicol is a subsidiary of Northwest Industries. The Michigan Chemical Company, the manufacturer of Firemast that began the PBB fiasco, is also a subsidiary of Northwest Industries. Both chemical companies are facing civil suits and criminal charges...
Last October, Rep. William M. Brodhead (D-Mich.) introduced the bill in the House. Yesterday Soble testified about the bill before the House Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Finance. "Industrial toxic pollution is approaching catastrophic proportions," Soble said last week. "It has reached those proportions in Michigan with PBB. Nine million people in Michigan have PBB in their bodies, and we really don't know what it's going to do," he added...