European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1986, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 the stars and stripes sunday March 16, 1986 pesticide detected in some breast milk Dairy product contamination probed by the associated press traces of a banned pesticide found in milk that has been removed from stores in eight states have been detected in breast milk of some pregnant women a health official says. Federal investigators meanwhile will visit Arkansas Missouri and Oklahoma next week to study the Hep Bachlor contamination which has forced Farmers to dump thousands of Gallons of milk. Nearly 100 Dairy farms have been quarantined in Arkansas and Missouri because cattle were found to have eaten feed contaminated with Hep Bachlor which was banned after scientists discovered it caused cancer in Laboratory rats. Herds in Oklahoma Are being tested. The traces of Hep Bachlor were found in breast milk from combined samples of 10 women with the amount approaching 0.1 parts per million the level at which a milk product must be removed from the Market under Federal regulations said or. Stuart Fitzhugh Arkansas Deputy director of health. We do not feel there is sufficient risk in a baby s drinking breast milk if the Mother has stopped drinking cow s milk contaminated with Hep Bachlor he said Fri Day. Arkansas health department officials have recommended that those pregnant or nursing and children under a year old drink powdered milk because babies Are particularly susceptible to toxins. Most other peo ple can safely drink store bought milk the said. Fitzhugh said the Levels in the breast milk ranged from 0.07 to 0.097 parts Permillion. But or. Greg Kresse of Eureka Springs Ark., said the Levels reached 0.1 parts per million the Fra s action level. Because the Fra has said Hep Bachlor lodges in fat deposits and can take at least six months to leave the body Kresse said he has ordered All his patients to Stop breastfeeding. If the Dairy products used during preg Nancy were contaminated just because she the Mother stopped using Dairy products does t mean that the breast milk was Safe he said. Two Arkansas companies meanwhile recalled 10,500 Gallons of ice Cream Friday after tests showed they were contaminate with the pesticide. Bill Teer Arkansas health department s director of sanitation services said Borden Dairy of Little Rock voluntarily recalled 10,000 Gallons of ice Cream in half gallon Square containers sold Only in Arkansas. Sugar Creek manufacturing of Russellville Ark., voluntarily recalled 500 Gallons of soft ice milk sold to outlets in Arkansas and Louisiana he said. Teer also said 782 of Arkansas More than 1,300 Dairy farms have been notified they Are free of contamination but 82 Are prohibited from Selling milk or cattle. Four Dairy Farmers in Oklahoma were told last week to Stop Selling milk because of the contamination but no farms Are under quarantine said Leslea Bennett Webb an Oklahoma department of health spokeswoman. The milk apparently was contaminated when the feed was sold to Farmers in a Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma. The com Pany that sold the feed shut Down March 6, when Arkansas officials announced the contamination. The company s owner has de Nied any wrongdoing. The feed is a Mash byproduct of gasohol produced at . W. Inc. Of Van Buren Ark. Jack e. White the owner of .w., inc., said in an interview published thursday that the company he bought the seed from did t Tell him it was treated with Leptach Lor. F White has been in the Pope county jail in Russellville Ark., about a month serving a 90-Day sentence on an unrelated fraud charge. Since state officials announced the feed had been contaminated Valley feeds which White also owns has shut Down. Louisiana health officials ordered suspect milk from Arkansas removed from grocery shelves. Some Safeway grocery stores in North Eastern Texas pulled from their shelves milk that came from the affected states. The Only tainted milk found in Kansas was taken off the shelves of Wichita Groc Ery stores earlier this week said Dairy commissioner Archie Hurst. It was traced to a Ponca City okla., Dairy. . Agriculture Secretary Richard Lyng said Friday a task Force would visit those states next week. Some producers whose clean milk was mingled in tanks with contaminated products May have to dump the milk until tests prove their milk is Safe said or. Taylor Woods Arkansas state veterinarian. Along with our concerns about the pub Lic health implications of the Hep Bachlor contamination we fear its effects on farm ers and agriculture Lyng said. The eco nomic consequences for Dairy Farmers could be  three neighbors stand outside a Carmel ind., Home where a Cessna 152 made a forced Landing after run plane dangerous a photo Ning out of fuel. The plane was trying to land in a Fiel behind the House. Stateside scouts continuing Sale of cookies Indianapolis a girl scout officials said Friday the scouts will continue Selling their cookies nationwide. Meanwhile the Indiana health commissioner told con Sumers to carefully examine the cookies after 16 boxes were reportedly tampered with by insertions of sewing Needles and Glass. State health commissioner Woodrow a. Myers had urged Consumers to refrain from eating the cookies until further notice but Friday night he backed off saying the cookies could be eaten after they Are checked for Tam Pering. Despite the reports of Needles and Glass Myers said no pattern has been established that would indicate Tam Pering at manufacturing plants or distribution centers of the  Myers said seven of the 16 reports had been confirmed meaning that the state Board of health had inspected and found foreign objects in the cookies. Myers said Needles pins Glass and aluminium were among the items reportedly found. Deborah Mason a spokeswoman for girl scouts of the Usa in new York agreed that the incidents were Iso lated. She would not elaborate on the reports but she said that no National recall was being considered. Sales of the cookies began March 7 and end March 21. Officials say the tampering seems to have been limited to two of Indiana s 13 regional girl scout councils the covered Bridge Council in Terre haute and the Kentuck Iana Council in Louisville by. More than 3 million americans belong to the girl scouts Mason said. The latest cookie sales figures Avail Able show that More than 130 million boxes were sold in 1984. The cookies Cost $2 a Box with the proceeds used for girl scout programs and Camps. Federal penalties for those convicted of tampering in clude a maximum Fine of $20,000 and five years in prison. If an injury is involved the offender could be sentenced to life in prison. Cagney remains in Hospital for circulatory problem in foot new York a James Cagney the Oscar win Ning actor Best known for his film roles As a scowling Public enemy remained hospitalized saturday with a circulatory problem a spokeswoman said. Cagney 86, was in stable condition at Lenox Hill hos Pital said the administrator on duty who identified her self As d. Cooke. He was admitted to the Hospital a few Days ago with a foot problem involving his circulatory system another spokeswoman Eva Dales said. She said Cagney s problem was not considered serious and he will probably go Home in a few  2 California papers Settle suit concerning syndication rights san Francisco a an antitrust suit by the Oakland Tribune against the san Francisco chronicle was settled when the chronicle agreed to give up its exclusive san Francisco Bay area rights to doonesbury and other syndicated comics and columns. The agreement allows the Tribune to buy a certain number of the syndicated features according to a designated schedule. In return the Oakland newspaper gave the chronicle similar rights to the Tribune s exclusive features. We got what we were fighting for said Robert , editor and publisher of the Tribune. He said the Tribune sued for More than 135 syndicated features but there Are less than two dozen that we regard As very  he said that the comics Doones Bury Cathy and Garfield Are the Tribune s first targets but the paper still must negotiate rights and Cost with the syndicates involved. More research urged to find link Between diet cancer Columbus Ohio a the emphasis in cancer research should be shifted away from cigarette smoking an to the thin8s we eat a National cancer Institute official says. Donald Iverson associate director of the Institute s can cer control science program said no one knows for sure whether special diets can prevent certain kinds of cancer and the Issue will Only be settled through extensive testing. He said the same kind of program that eventually linked lung cancer to cigarette smoking must be started before medical experts can conclude whether special diets can reduce the incidence of cancer. We re in the same position now with diet As where we were with cigarette research in the late 1950s and Early 60s," he told the Ohio nutrition Council