Gulf Seafood Gets Intense Safety Testing

[LTX]

WASHINGTON August 16, 2010

Seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is being put under the microscope like no other kind on the market, with fish, shrimp and other catches ground up to hunt for minute traces of oil — far more reassuring than that sniff test that made all the headlines.

And while the dispersant that was dumped into the massive oil spill has consumers nervous, health regulators contend there's no evidence it builds up in seafood — although they're working to create a test for it, just in case.

More Gulf waters are reopening to commercial hauls as tests show little hazard from oil, and Louisiana's fall shrimp season kicks off Monday. Yet it's too soon to know what safety testing will satisfy a public so skeptical of government reassurances that even local fishermen voice concern.

Basic biology is key: . . .


http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=129223422

[HillbillyBob]

1. It was all kept out of sight.

I have no idea how the dispersant works in the water, does it settle or did the currents carry it away and disperse it further or wash ashore.

There should have been massive testing and tracking insted bp f*****d over everyone in the gulf.
Edit to add,
I mean the collusion of the administration and bp and cops(in this case rightly called pigs). Something needs to happen big time to get the corpses and zombies out of government and see real strong regulations and watch dogs to do those inspections.

We are doing all we can as po folks to lessen our dependence on any fossil fuels. yea and i know we still have to have a car, farm equip etc, but does not mean we can't keep knocking down our use. I replaced the stock tires and air filters on our cars with a low resistance K&N air filter. You clean it and put it back in thats 1 less air filter per year or if like us it would be 4 or 5 filters.
Low resistance tires.
Keep the car clean, and I use teflon polish, a tonneu cover on trucks.
synth oil in the engine. We get 37 from our Versa, put new michelin low resistance tires on it last week.
When I put the mich on the truck i got a 2 mpg increase and you don't hve to replace them nearly as often as cheaper tires and they are better in weather.
The ones on my truck were 40,000 miles but I have gotten 80 and they are just now starting to get low tread.

[phantom power]

2. I feel like I can see the future.

In a year or two, people will start to report health problems. Some studies will link it to toxins that concentrated up the Gulf food chain. Then we'll enter an endless game of he-said / she-said, where everybody scrupulously denies That Any Such Thing Could Happen.

We'll never be told the whole truth.

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