As waters reopen for fishing in the wake of the Gulf oil spill, BP’s chief operating officer Doug Suttles offered a public confidence boost for the local seafood industry
As waters reopen for fishing in the Gulf of Mexico, federal public health officials are maintaining confidence in the safety of seafood harvested in the region.
Just days after the
In an effort to bolster an embattled Gulf coast economy, First Lady Michelle Obama joined the chorus of Administration officials assuring the safety of Gulf seafood in a speech Friday.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association announced last week that it was reopening one-third of previously closed Gulf of Mexico fishing waters since no oil had been observed in the
Just days after BP stopped the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal is calling on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to expedite
The University of California’s Davis Animal Health and Food Safety Laboratory has been been chosen as one of eight labs to test gulf seafood for toxic chemicals, university officials
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) expanded the closed fishing area in the Gulf of Mexico again this week. The new area includes portions of Louisiana’s federal-state waterline which
Researchers at Mississippi State University State Chemical Lab have developed new method for testing Gulf of Mexico seafood for polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, the main oil contaminants that affect seafood.
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Representative Edward Markey (D-MA), chair of the Energy and Environment Subcommittee in the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which is leading the congressional investigation into the BP oil spill, sent
Maybe now if the Gulf seafood industry could just see over the horizon, it would be comforted just by knowing what’s really ahead. Instead, in the 79 days since
The chemical being used in the Gulf of Mexico to help disperse the onslaught of oil is no more toxic than oil itself, according to a preliminary government study.
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