Monsanto knew decades early its PCB dumping was lethally toxic and hid it

Evidence

In 1966, Monsanto had hired the late Mississippi State University professor Denzel Ferguson to investigate the health effects of its PCB pollution in Anniston. When Ferguson’s team of biologists lowered bluegill fish into the city’s creeks to monitor the water’s health effects, all twenty-five fish died within three and a half minutes. “It was like dunking the fish in battery acid,” one team member told the Washington Post. — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 561

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 561
• XREF: connects to: Extremely tiny PCB concentrations cause permanent fetal brain and IQ damage — Harriet A. Washington, A Terrible Thing to Waste, 550; General Motors paid only $507,000 for 25 years of PCB dumping — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 111; Accidental PCB rice-oil poisonings killed infants and caused lifelong disorders — Winona LaDuke, All Our Relations: Native Struggles for…, 105