NRDC's Gina Solomon on Trying to Pin Down The FDA for Answers

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Run time: 06:10 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EQIXztpL6s   Posted on YouTube: October 24, 2010 By YouTube Member: ProjectGulfImpact Views on YouTube: 151   Posted on DU: October 25, 2010 By DU Member: Generic Other Views on DU: 408

 
More information can be found in Dr. Solomon's recent blog entries, linked below:

"Gulf Shrimp Testing: Is a Dozen Samples in 5000 Square Miles Enough to Reassure You?"

http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gso...

And "Six Months, Five Shrimp, and One Nasty Mess: Health & Seafood Safety Concerns from BP Spill Still Linger in Gulf Today"

Here: http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/gso...

Where she writes, "...the Federal government reopened 2,927 square miles of the Gulf to fishing and shrimping, just South of the Mississippi Delta. The Feds confirmed that the area was safe for shrimping by performing a "sniff test" for oil odors on five shrimp samples. They confirmed the sniff test with three composite samples of shrimp sent for chemical testing from an approximately 1,000 square mile area. No information was provided to the public on the size or location of the shrimping grounds or why so few chemical analyses were performed. This does not seem sufficient to assess the safety of the seafood coming out of the Gulf right now."

Project Gulf Impact
www.projectgulfimpact.org

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1. Sniff testing an insult to my intelligence!!

500 dollars to test samples? That's all? Local municipalities need to start paying for their own testing!!

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2. Meet the new boss ...,

Same old song and dance. Here's to the immeasureable suffering they inherit from their actions. :toast: