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Published: Monday, September 06, 2010, 1:13 PM Updated: Wednesday, September 08, 2010, 9:10 AM
Gina Solomon, senior scientist at the Natural Resources Defense Council, is calling on federal officials to conduct a more rigorous testing regimen for Gulf of Mexico shrimp and seafood.
In reopening about 5,130 square miles of Gulf waters to shrimping and fishing Thursday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration proclaimed the shrimp and seafood safe. But Solomon said the data indicate that the agency only used data from 12 samples of shrimp, consisting of 73 individual shrimp, for its evaluation.
That's just too small, she said, for an area that is roughly the size of the state of Connecticut...
Scientists question thoroughness of Gulf seafood testing
Scientists question thoroughness of Gulf seafood testing
by Maya Rodriguez / Eyewitness News wwltv.com Posted on September 20, 2010 at 10:58 PM
Excerpt:
Multiple agencies are involved in that seafood testing. However, the job mainly falls to NOAA, in conjunction with the Food and Drug Administration. Yet, now, some independent scientists are expressing concerns that the seafood testing falls short of being thorough -- even though government officials have said Gulf seafood is safe to eat.
When Dr. William Sawyer was asked whether those safety claims could be backed up with the testing done so far, he replied: "Absolutely not, especially with respect to Louisiana shrimp."
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"FDA has not followed methodology that is generally accepted by science and instituted by the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency] and that requires a reasonable random sampling of the area, with sufficient samples to statistically determine what is present," he said.
