NOAA, FDA to test seafood for dispersants

PASCAGOULA, Miss. — Amid undying criticism over the large-scale use of Corexit in the Deepwater Horizon response, NOAA and the Food and Drug Administration are developing a lab test to detect traces of the chemical dispersant in seafood. The test, they hope, will finally put to rest concerns that poisons from the compounds used to break up the oil will linger in the food chain.

“They don’t expect to find dispersant in fish but are operating out of an abundance of caution,” says Christine Patrick, a spokeswoman for fisheries programs at the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. “It’s because people need more reassurance and confidence ... (which are) not as controllable as you would hope.”

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Also, GreenPeace has set sail to the gulf for testing.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/greenpeaceusa09/

They can rest assured that they have lost much of their credibility with me and any tests that they run will not reassure me in the least.

There were children swimming in TOXIC crude, with their blessing, for months.

take your pick