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Just finished watching the movie “Bitter Harvest” and found it to be scarey and sad for the people of MI..I also would be interested to know how far this contamination may have extended due to the products made from contaminated milk meat chicken etc. since the shelf life of canned goods such formula, soups, etc, is quite lengthy. I have 3 sons born during those years, the youngest of which has many medical problems that began at birth and continue today. I feel for those in MI affected by pbb and also realize to that there are many more contaminates out there that we don’t even realize we have been exposed to and this results in medical mysteries for many people.. We need better testing standards and more doctors willing to look outside the box when diagnosing illnesses that make no sense, Sounds like money, greed and being job scared is more important than human life to me..We are not only destroying our world but those that live in it. WHAT DO OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS HAVE TO BATTLE TO OVERCOME WHAT HAS ALREADY BEEN CREATED BY THOSE WHO ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. It is a shame.

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I was still young at the time, but I remember it all very well.
The only reason the state admitted it had a problem was because one farmer sent samples to OUT OF STATE labs. Until then, the state was denying there was anything wrong. The state admitted to the problem less than two days after the farmer reported what he had done.

The state was trying to cover it up. And even after the fact, the lawsuit settlement explicitly stated that nobody else could sue. The state cut everyone off from their right to sue.

Today, you look at the available literature, and you might think PBB poisoning was not so bad. It seriously degrades memory and cognition. Since it stores itself in fat, anyone who is exposed will re-poison themselves every time they try to lose weight. I never hear about it, but they used to tell women to NOT breast feed their children as they will only end up poisoning their children.

Before the state admitted to anything, I remember my mother throwing out milk because it smelled funny. Some milk was so poisoned that it had a red tint – but was still sitting on the store shelves.

The poisoning was FAR WORSE than they’re telling it today.

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I lived in the Michigan area and the area where so many persons were affected by contaminated milk and meat. I remember it so clearly. Now I am 52 and for the majority of my adult life starting probably in my senior year really, I started having symptoms that were vague. I had unexplained thyroid symptoms that would come and go and odd muscle issues w/weakness. Later I would develope an autoimmune disease that no family member could explaine as no one had this. I now deal w/so many issues from neuropathy, to myositis, to and autoimmune disease and thyroid disease. It’s so odd that one person can have so much wrong w/them w/no real explanation and I always seem to go back to that time in my life. It’s just that I can’t seem to not wonder if that time in my life and that experience didn’t have any part to what I have dealt w/in my current life and what I have now passed onto some of my chldren sadly. Disease that I can’t seem to explain nor show that runs in my family on either side. How could a state get away w/such negligent w/o being accountable to it’s citizens? I often have wondered that. I am so glad though that it is finally out in the open. Thank you.

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My parents bought a side of beef that was contaminated. My mother had her breast milk tested and her levels were off the charts. Shortly after this and before I was born, my parents built a farm and we went ‘organic’ consuming mostly what we raised and grew including milking our own cow and eating our own beef that was fed by our own crops.

Regardless of never neither of us having directly consumed the contaminated meat, milk or other food products. My younger sister and I both have Poly-cystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS), hypothyroidism, digestive issues and some weird skin reaction to water among many other strange symptoms.

Whether you ate it directly, consumed breast milk or not, the very fact that my body was formed in the body of a person still contaminated with PBBs still seems to have impacted our health.

I would like to see some research on the impact this has had on the health of Michigan citizens. I would also like to see the companies who are still continuing on in business to this day (under the same name or not) fund and pay for any costs associated or resulting from this.

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My name is Jennifer. I grew up playing on my grandparents farm in Paw Paw, Michigan from mid 1970s to approx 1990. I have found some articles with regards to this situation where individuals with dairy farms in Michigan were also coming down with Hodgkins disease in the late 1970s, after the theory that farmers who were poisoned with PBBs were also developing Hodgkins. Hodgkins is rare, and is not typically associated with heredity.
I have an aunt who, at 16 years old (around 1976′ish), developed symptoms and was diagnosed with Hodgkins disease. This would have been approximately around the year 1976 or ’77. She had passed away after struggling for approximately 7 years with the disease, in 1983. Her family drank their cow’s milk straight from the milkhouse every day.
I would like to add this information to a national database for consideration as a link to further improve the knowledge of possible links between PBBs and Hodgkins disease. Please share any info or links that you have to help me pass this information along for consideration. Thank you. justjen76@comcast.net

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I lived in Freemont Michigan in 1974-, my family lived two miles from the grain elevator at the edge of town across the street from a Dairy and five miles from ground zero where over 5000 cattle were taken and killed and buried in a clay lined pit. We drank raw milk from across the street every day. We saw the health problems of the calves. I even used to help put medicine in the calves eyes to help one of the problems. Little Bully, my broter’s new born bull who came from there sadly died he was very young. My other calf had problems too. I suspect it has contributed to my many physical problems also no way to pinpoint for sure but the more chemicals you are exposed too the more problems that occur. Look at Gulf War Syndrome.
I worried for many years about this with no way to find out any helpful information. Very tragic.

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I lived in Central Michigan and my family was severly harmed by PBB. My twin sister and I have many problems including autoimune, siezures, digestive, cancer, thyroid, skin, and reproductive. Our daughters, who we breast-fed, are now beginning to develop these same issues.

We have suffered enough, now we have to watch them suffer too? Really?

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