TUNA IS STILL TAINTED

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July/August 1972
 
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Because the East Germans have not been invited to participate in the air pollution conference, Russia and its East European allies are boycotting the meeting. McDuffie, calling for a "truly worldwide" conference, has appealed to American representatives to the conference and to Kurt Waldheim, the new Secretary General of the UN, to invite the East Germans. "Otherwise," he says, "how can we expect to solve pollution problems which transcend national boundaries?"

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McDuffie has won one recent battle. Last October, after a child in New York City died of lead poisoning, and at the request of an investigative reporter, he tested the lead content of paint on pencils. McDuffie found up to 18 times the permissible level of lead in some brands of pencils and, partly as a result of his findings, the State Attorney General has asked for a permanent injunction barring the sale of "poison pencils".

The chemist's persistence has begun to pay off personally too. First, no doubt as a result of the tuna-mercury publicity, McDuffie has landed a $14,400 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation to inventory the Susquehanna River for possible contamination by trace metals. Second, he has gained a little political clout: Prof. Bruce McDuffie has been chosen as a McGovern delegate tee the Democratic National Convention.

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