Government Changes Course With Chemical Test for Dispersant in Gulf Seafood

[ensho]

http://onthehillblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/government-changes-course-with-chemical.html


The federal government on Friday announced it has developed and is using a chemical test to detect dispersants used in the Deepwater Horizon-BP oil spill in fish, oysters, crab and shrimp.

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Before now, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) had said that the presence of oil, not dispersants, were the problem.

In their Friday announcement, FDA and NOAA say that "to ensure consumers have total confidence in the safety of seafood being harvested from the Gulf, NOAA and FDA have added this second test for dispersant when considering reopening Gulf waters to fishing."

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Using this new, second test, in the Gulf scientists have tested 1,735 tissue samples including more than half of those collected to reopen Gulf of Mexico federal waters. Only a few showed trace amounts of dispersants residue (13 of the 1,735) and they were well below the safety threshold of 100 parts per million for finfish and 500 parts per million for shrimp, crabs and oysters, the FDA and NOAA say. As such, they do not pose a threat to human health, the agencies say.

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I don't want ANY dispersant or oil in seafood

they may accumulate in the body like radiation does

[HCE SuiGeneris]

1. I still don't trust 'em. However, it's a step in the right direction.

Lets' hope some independent testing by advocacy groups occurs simultaneously.

[dgibby]

2. Wonder how many they had to test before they were able to come up with those results.n/t