FIGURE 58.3 The outcome of a risk assessment of PCBs. Based on a risk assessment of humans consuming fish, the EPA determined that the fish living in the Hudson River in New York State and in Silver Lake in Massachusetts had unacceptably high concentrations of PCBs due to illegal dumping of PCBs by General Electric. As a result, anglers were not allowed to keep and consume the fish that they caught from those water bodies.
(AP Photo/Alan Solomon)