Human Health Risks from PCBs

Thousands of medical PCB studies have shown that polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) cause a wide variety of health effects, often at very low exposure levels. The average American already carries enough PCB in his or her body to meet or exceed the minimum threshold for beginning health problems due to PCBs. In Northeast Wisconsin, we have much higher PCB exposures and greater health risks.

Not all of the 209 kinds of PCB have the same effects. Some have properties like dioxin (one of the world's most toxic man-made compounds), some PCBs act like hormones, and other PCBs are nerve poisons. We have a mixture including all types in the Fox River and Green Bay.
PCBs alter major systems in the body (immune, hormone, nervous, and enzyme systems); therefore, PCBs affect a wide variety of body organs and functions.
Our PCB contamination is a public health crisis which has been ignored far too long.

Now’s the time to be involved in this public participation campaign. We’ve worked over 20 years on this cause and we all need to pitch in for the final push for PCB pollution cleanup, public compensation and restoration of the Fox River and Green Bay. You can help protect public health, fish and wildlife, and prevent this ever happening again.