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Warren County, the poorest section of North Carolina, is a predominantly Black agricultural community. In the mid-1970s, petroleum containing poly-chlorinated bifals (PCBs) was spilled around the state, and the federal government decided to dispose of the waste in Warren County, panelists said...
...University of Maryland, electrical equipment has been leaking PCBs since August, in violation of federal safety guidelines, physical plant officials at the university said last month...
...leaking transformer is located in a hall used for meat processing and the PCBs in the air could be absorbed into the fat tissues of the meat, a Cornell professor who wanted to remain anonymous, said. A few hundred transformers on campus are cooled by PCBs and one or more probably leaks every year, Doney said...
...PCBs are fat-soluble and build up in these tissues, the chemistry professor said. PCBs have long toxicity and build up in the liver, another professor said, adding that they are never excreted from the body...
...officials said government investigators did not find the leakage significant enough to warrant shutting the equipment down, but Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) guidelines state, "Transformers containing PCBs can be used as long as they perform their intended function and do not leak PCBs into the environment...