Tuesday, July 22, 2008
News Mind your PCBs, please
Posted by Mara Shalhoup on Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 10:38 PM
Some folks up in Rome, Georgia, found a six-legged deer. Could it be linked to PCB contamination?
Studies have found that polychlorinated biphenyls, a toxic chemical that General Electric scattered around north Georgia (including a barrel full of the stuff that turned up next to a Rome barn), can lead to animal deformities in the embryonic stage.
From here on out, when driving through north Georgia, be on the lookout for birds that look like this.
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