Re: pcb-containing transformer oil

[Alan Muller <amuller@dca.net>]

At 04:45 PM 9/12/99 -0400, Peter Vanhoutte wrote:
>I'm a Belgian MP and member of the dioxin commission who is trying to find
>the causes of the dioxincrisis in our country. Someone told me that used
>transformer oil - with PCB-residues - is in some countries added to
>pesticides (e.g. used on oranges) as dipersion agent. Is there anybody who
>knows about it or can confirm this story?
>
It's been quite a while since I followed the US regulations on this, but unless things have changed, a concentration of PCBs lower than 50 parts per million is considered to be "non-pcb" transformer oil.  This could possibly be the basis of something undesirable happening.

am

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