[Milsurplus] PCB's

[Reuben Popp]

There is also a lot of referenced work on the CDC and pubmed.

https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/polychlorinated-biphenyls/adverse_health.html
Chloracne is the same condition that exposure to agent orange would cause.

Not sure about you, but looking over that list of effects makes me wonder
about the study you mention.  When I lived in Poughkeepsie, NY, you were
told to not eat ANYTHING out of the Hudson as the entirety of it was
contaminated with PCBs from upriver where GE (or was it Westinghouse?)
dumped a bunch of PCBs.  So much so, that the Hudson was declared a
superfund site... one of the largest in the US.

On Sat, Dec 2, 2023 at 10:15 AM Jim Whartenby via Milsurplus <
milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:

> Perhaps not the best comparison, cooking with olive oil is tasty, cooking
> with PCBs is deadly.  See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yushō_disease
>
> Your point about saccharin is on point, it causes bladder cancer in rats,
> a favorite lab animal, but not in humans.
>
> Mercury anyone?
> Jim
> Logic: Method used to arrive at the wrong conclusion, with confidence.
> Murphy
>
>
> On Saturday, December 2, 2023 at 09:21:39 AM CST, CL in NC via Milsurplus <
> milsurplus at mailman.qth.net> wrote:
>
>
> Remember saccharin?  Cancer in a pink package?  Turns out they were
> wrong.  If you do some research on PCB's you will discover they are as
> wrong about PCB's as they are about saccharin.  A report done a few years
> ago, available online, shows the actual chance of getting cancer from PCB's
> is on par with those in the olive oil industry sticking their hands and
> arms into vats of that oil.  A discussion on our net a while back brought
> back memories of the 1970's where power line electricians pulled the lid
> off pole pigs to change internal taps, putting their whole arms in there to
> reach them.  I was friends with several over the years, being acquainted by
> seeing them on a regular basis due to all the ground mounted transformer
> vaults we had.  They retired and lived long lives afterward.
>
> Charlie in NC
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