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Letter From The Editor: Four Years Into The BP Oil Spill

By Dan Flynn on April 27, 2014

An offshore oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana exploded four years ago this month, killing 11 on the crew and spilling five million barrels of hydrocarbons into waters known…
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Letter From The Editor: BP Oil Spill, Three Years Later

By Dan Flynn on May 26, 2013

About two weeks before the explosion and fire on the Deepwater Horizon oil platform off the coast of Louisiana, Food Safety News pictured the wrong species when reporting on a West Coast oyster story.  We…
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Oysters At New Orleans Restaurant Cause Norovirus

By Dan Flynn on May 9, 2012

Fourteen people became ill with norovirus after eating Gulf oysters at a New Orleans area restaurant on April 28 and 29, the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals (DHH) announced Tuesday.

As a result, DHH

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Two Years After BP Oil Spill: No Ecosystem Funding Yet

By Dan Flynn on April 20, 2012

On today’s second anniversary of the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon platform, which killed 11 workers and caused the massive BP oil spill, there will be no gifts.

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The Resource and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourism Opportunities

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No Sign of Oyster Recovery Two Years After BP Oil Spill

By Dan Flynn on March 30, 2012

With the second anniversary of the BP oil spill fast approaching, attention is once again returning to the damaged Gulf environment, especially to its greatly diminished oyster production.

The worst man-made environmental disaster in

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Gulf Spill Trial Delayed

By Dan Flynn on February 27, 2012

Bon Secour Fisheries Inc., located east of Alabama’s Mobile Bay, was one of the first to sue BP after 2010’s Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. Today, Bon Secour was to get its day in court along

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Taylor Reiterates ‘Gulf Seafood Is Safe to Eat’

By Helena Bottemiller on January 17, 2012

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is continuing its effort to reassure the public that Gulf seafood is safe, despite lingering concerns about the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.   

“Gulf seafood is

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Gulf Senators Ask FDA's Help to Promote Seafood Safety

By Helena Bottemiller on December 12, 2011

Senators from Gulf states are asking the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to help assure the public that Gulf seafood is safe to eat, despite some concerns about the impact of the last year’s massive

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Gulf Seafood Not So Safe for Pregnant Women, Children?

By Dan Flynn on October 13, 2011

If people living on the Gulf Coast trusted the federal government all that much, they might be in trouble right now.  

In the first peer-reviewed challenge to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s)

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Too Much Fresh Water May Kill Gulf Oysters

By Dan Flynn on May 10, 2011

Coming a year after an oil spill and six years after a hugely damaging hurricane, the Gulf oyster industry fears too much fresh water coming down the Mississippi River could be its final strike.

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A Boll Weevil Opportunity on Bon Secour River

By Dan Flynn on May 9, 2011

BON SECOUR, AL — Chris Nelson, vice president of Bon Secour Fisheries Inc., knew a year ago when the BP oil spill had just begun that the hardest damages to settle would involve the market

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