Gulf Seafood Gets Chemically Tested for Oil, Not Dispersant

OK I read one piece from CBS News that said vigorous testing has ocurred but forgive me for not trusting them as a source ... call it a hunch .... you must always look deeper to get at the truth ... beyond the front page ..
Which is the point of this blog ...

So I looked deeper & found this piece which reveals tests are not being run for the "more than 1.7 million gallons of one chemical dispersant, Corexit" . I don't know about you but I have never ordered some fish sticks with a side of Corexit !

Meghan Scott, an FDA spokeswoman, said, “While we are finding that [dispersant] is harmful to the living fish itself, there’s a difference between what it does to a living fish and any harm that it might have for a human consuming a fish ..."

The manufacturer of Corexit, Nalco, has maintained that ingredients in its product “do not bioaccumulate and are commonly found in popular household products.”

But are these products we normally ingest ??



NOAA, the FDA and the Gulf states have been rigorously testing Gulf seafood for oil—doing smell tests with teams of human sniffers, and performing chemical tests for the harmful polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, or PAHs, found naturally in crude oil.

But they’re not chemically testing—at least, not yet—for the presence of oil dispersant. BP has thus far applied more than 1.7 million gallons of one chemical dispersant, Corexit, to the Gulf. (The lack of dispersant testing for seafood has been mentioned by The Palm Beach Post and CNN, but we first noticed toward the end of this Los Angeles Times piece.)

Here is rest of article :

http://www.propublica.org/blog/item/gulf-seafood-gets-chemically-tested-for-oil-not-dispersant