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Wednesday, 01 December 2010 17:32 |
Marylee Orr, Executive Director of LEAN was recently interview by Jon Bowermaster on the status of gulf seafood and its safety.
* Much of the government’s evidence continues to be based on “sensory testing”—essentially giving seafood a sniff test. Shrimp or fish only go on to further government testing if they smell bad. “We’ve given the seafood we’ve tested the smell test, and there was no odor,” says Orr. “However, when we got the numbers back after testing it, they were alarmingly high for both petroleum hydrocarbons and PAHs.”
You can read the story on TakePart.com
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