Lab Tests For Fish Food Safety? "We're Working On It"

FDA waves a wand and declares dispersants not so bad

"On Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reopened more than 5,000 square miles off the Florida coast to commercial and recreational fishing. At the peak of fishing bans, NOAA had closed 37% of federal gulf waters. Now, about 22% remains closed.

"We worked closely with [the Food and Drug Administration] to establish a protocol for reopening," said NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco: There can't be any visible oil, and seafood samples must pass smell and chemical tests for the presence of hydrocarbons.

The sensory tests, which consist of trained specialists sniffing samples for chemical traces, are also used to detect residue from the dispersants used to break up the oil. But the agency has not yet designed a chemical test to pick up dispersants in seafood.

"We are working to develop one," Lubchenco said, noting that the FDA had concluded that dispersant residues did not present a public health threat."

One Corexit ingredient is 2-butoxyethanol, a chemical that can cause liver and kidney damage.

Corexit banned in Britain a decade ago

This is the same outfit that last year declared meat from cloned animals safe to consume. And this is from the same government that knew people were going to sicken and die at ground zero in 2001 and then told them to fuck off when the aid worker bill was rejected two weeks ago.
Want some prawns?

flashback - Whitman lied about Ground Zero air quality

"The good news continues to be that air samples we have taken have all been at levels that cause no concern." she gushed.