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The government’s safety testing methodologies for Gulf of Mexico seafood were insufficient to prevent oil-tainted animals from being sold in U.S. supermarkets.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used outdated risk assessment techniques when evaluating the safety of gulf seafood in the wake of the worst accidental oil spill in human history and was responsible for allowing food with “10,000 times too much contamination” than should be permitted, failing to highlight the elevated risk to children and pregnant women.
Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspective, study concludes: “We found not only petroleum in the digestive tracts of shrimp, but also in the edible portions of fish. We’ve collected shrimp, oysters and finned fish on their way to marketplace — we tested a good number of seafood samples and in 100% we found petroleum.” Experts cited excessive amounts of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH), which can trigger an elevated cancer risk. Heightened PAH levels are precisely what the NRDC found as well.
The FDA continues to insist that seafood from the Gulf of Mexico is safe to consume.
In the 20+ years of being in the Seafood Processing business, never once did we have any kind of inspector come into the plants. Never even heard of one coming onto the boats in the NW?
I agree with SATX56, 0 faith in the U.S. Government or it's agencies...
HW aka Capt. Seafood.
Environmental group finds pollutants, surprise surprise. I always cast a wary eye on "research" by an organization with an obvious agenda, this is really no different than a if oil corporations did a study proving the opposite.
According to a piece I just now saw on the Orlando noon news, Gulf shrimp harvests are a quarter of what they were pre-oil spill, and that mutations have occurred already.
Yet, BP is running ads 24/7 that everything is ok in the Gulf, and to come visit.
According to a piece I just now saw on the Orlando noon news, Gulf shrimp harvests are a quarter of what they were pre-oil spill, and that mutations have occurred already.Yet, BP is running ads 24/7 that everything is ok in the Gulf, and to come visit.
Such disheartening news.
Wonder how long it will affect sea life? Guess as long as the life span of the largest fish and sea mammals. Long time.
Wonder how long it will affect sea life? Guess as long as the life span of the largest fish and sea mammals. Long time.
Its very disheartening, we used to eat a LOT of Gulf shrimp, scallops, oysters, etc.
I fear I will not be eating any more in my lifetime.
BTW, we are less than an hour from the Gulf.
That is really unfortunate, lots of hard working people make a living on those shrimp boats. I have read a few pieces about the shrimp decline and one encouraging angle I saw was that shrimp can recover in numbers very quickly so hopefully it is just a single generation.
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That's why I'm looking closer at labels watching for that Chinese crap!
