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Article: High levels of PCBs found in 2 Utah Lake fish
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- Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
- Article date:
- October 2, 2007
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High levels of PCBs have prompted Utah officials to advise strict
limitations on consuming carp and channel catfish caught in Utah
Lake. Polychlorinated biphenyls are toxic and also are believed
capable of causing cancer,
PCBs were in common use once as insulation in equipment like
electrical transformers. They were banned in the late 1970s but
persist in the environment.
The Utah departments of Natural Resources, Health and
Environmental Quality, the Utah Division of Wildlife Resources and
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sampled fish in Utah Lake to
check for contamination. Their findings prompted them to issue a
fish consumption advisory for channel catfish and to toughen a
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