WFTV Orlando reports:" We're more concerned about the dispersant and the dispersant mixed with oilthe dispersed oil, if you willthan we are about the crude oil itself ."
Tests conducted in recent months by [University of Southern Maine Center for Toxicology and Environmental Health director John] Wise's lab, using human cell lines, show that dispersants cause cell death and DNA damage , which has been linked to cancer and reproductive problems.
I've also previously reported that dispersants were used long after BP and the government said they had stopped using them in July. Now, Cherri Foytlin and Denise Rednour claim to have pictures of 176 empty containers of "discontinued' COREXIT 9527A found" With a ship date of August 10th . And the president of a county seafood workers' association claims that dispersant is still being applied.Brand new laboratory test results just in Monday morning are showing troubling problems with gulf seafood" the results are raising a lot of red flags.
WFTV put gulf shrimp to the test by ordering raw shrimp over the Internet and shipping it to a private lab. "
Scientists found elevated levels of Anthracene, a toxic hydrocarbon and a by-product of petroleum. The Anthracene levels were double what the FDA finds to be acceptable.
The scientist who tested the shrimp said she would not eat it based on the results "
In related news:
- Louisiana allegedly has more oiled shoreline now than in July
- A Gulf resident's November blood test shows ethylbenzene levels higher than cleanup workers tested in August
- An NSF-funded workgroup notes: "Storms are likely to resurrect the oil that is currently hidden from sight" -- "Much oil persists" nearshore
- A Florida State University professor says the oil is still there: "most of that Deepwater Horizon oil -- as much as 70 percent to 79 percent of it --sank to the ocean floor, where it remains, sucking up oxygen and inhibiting life.
- A University of Florida scientist says "clear evidence that much of the oil is still below the surface in subsurface plumes"
- At an international conference of experts, almost no one had great confidence in the safety of Gulf seafood
- Alabama shrimpers find catch "coated in oil" at area open for fishing -- Boat to be decontaminated
- Instead of cracking down on BP, the Obama administration has granted "categorical exclusions" to federally funded stimulus projects by BP (and other companies), effectively exempting those projects from environmental oversight
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