FDA: Gulf seafood safe despite oil spill concerns

[dipsydoodle]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Photos of fish with sores may raise concern about long-term environmental effects of the massive BP oil spill - but federal health officials say the Gulf seafood that's on the market is safe to eat.

After all, diseased fish aren't allowed to be sold, said Dr. Robert W. Dickey, who heads the Food and Drug Administration's Gulf Coast Seafood Laboratory.

"It's important to emphasize that we're talking about a low percentage of fish," Dickey stressed. "It doesn't represent a seafood safety hazard."

Two years after the oil spill, scientists cite lesions and other deformities in some Gulf fish as a sign of lingering environmental damage. They can't say for sure what's causing the fish ailments or if there really are more sick fish today than in the past.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MED_GULF_FISH_SAFETY_QA?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2012-04-20-03-55-42

Posted here as an article : although dated today news would not have been written by their medical correspondent.

[no_hypocrisy]

1. And Christine Todd Whitman, head of the Bush EPA, said the air was safe to breathe at Ground Zero

after 9-11.

[dipsydoodle]

2. I lost faith in your FDA

when they banned red Smarties. I'd have thought they had better things to do.

[Odin2005]

3. Bullshit.

[SDjack]

4. I don't think Louisiana shrimp and oysters will be served at the BP stockholders meetings. n/t