BATON ROUGE, LA — A year after the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion and BP oil spill, the biggest thing in the environment impacting anglers is the wind.
Louisiana’s coastal waterways and inland bays are getting the same high winds that have buffeted as many as 20 states. As
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New Orleans is back.
Let me explain. The first trip I made here was in 2009, four years after Hurricane Katrina crippled the city by flooding 80 percent of the Big Easy.
My 2009 trip was to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest, one
Oysters collected from the waters of the Gulf of Mexico in Louisiana are turning up with extremely high levels of cadmium, a toxic heavy metal. The amounts–at 150 to 200 times greater than levels considered safe for human consumption of oysters– are troubling.
Louisiana took the brunt of the 4.9
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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is re-opening 4,213 square miles of Gulf of Mexico federal waters to royal red shrimping, a deep-water fish that has been prohibited in the area since November when a shrimper found tar balls in his net.
NOAA said that while the tar balls could
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Another half dozen new governors are taking office this week as the changeover in the nation’s executive mansions plays out. A majority of the statehouses are not only getting a new executive, but those new governors are naming the people they want to lead food safety in their states.
Beginning
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Along with the many environmental problems posed by global climate change, an increase in ambient temperature could have negative effects on food safety everywhere, but particularly in developing countries.
That’s the message of a 2010 study in “Food Research International,” which investigates the varied effects of climate change on the
In our countdown of the year’s top food safety stories, number 3 was the impact of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform explosion on the area’s seafood industry:
The safety of seafood from the Gulf of Mexico after this year’s 4.9 million barrel BP oil spill remains a matter of conjecture.
Some 100 people have reported becoming ill after eating desserts from an Illinois pastry company that has since recalled products made after Nov. 1, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) reported Thursday.
Initial lab tests showed one of the suspect food items to be contaminated with high levels
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The White House announced Wednesday it has shipped about 2,000 pounds of shrimp and crabs from the Gulf to serve at this year’s holiday parties, a big gesture aimed at boosting consumer confidence in regional seafood in the wake of the devastating BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
“Since day one
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The Gulf seafood story, which began with the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform and subsequent spill of BP’s oil, is ending 2010 on a decidedly murky note.
“America’s Night Out For Gulf Seafood” this coming Friday (Dec. 1) will see more than 150 chefs and top
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