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what what made you suspicious of your mother's milk? I mean, why did you have these tests made? Well, a while back in the Chronicle, I saw an article in which Dr rice burrough was quoted. And he was talking about a new pollutant called PCB and he

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hoped to test mother's milk for PCB and DDT. After I read that article, I wrote a letter to Dr rice Burroughs saying I would be willing to have my milk tested. I've read for years about DDT and the possible harmful effects. And the more I read,

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the more concerned I become. And the result was that your milk was found to be three times the safe. It was actually the actual figures are, it was actually higher than this. It was 30.293 parts per million of DDT. The cow's milk samples was 19 parts

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per million, Which falls below the state level. Which means that my milk was 15 times the constitution of the actual cow's milk tested. And almost six times that allowed by the interstate commerce has put in the position of having to choose whether to nurse her baby

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and run the risks of passing DDT onto him or whether to stop nursing Where the DDT is concentrated in the mother's milk and passed on to the baby who has a very, very low resistance to the DDT and the very small body weight with which to

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absorb the DDT. In fact, one of the mothers who are the petitioners in this case Marilyn Vitor had her milk tested in Berkeley in july and found that it's DDT content was three times the maximum, which would be allowed in cow's milk, which is sold on

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the open market. In other words, if her milk was cow's milk, it would be condemned and could not be consumed by human beings.