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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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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.   

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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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Still Too Many Raw Oyster Deaths in Gulf States

By Dan Flynn on November 22, 2011

There’s red tide in Texas, salinity levels in state waters are way off in Mississippi, and Louisiana has fallen behind Washington state in oyster production. To say Gulf oystermen have not had much cause for…

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Overreaching on Oyster Safety?

By Gretchen Goetz on October 14, 2011

The government and seafood industry must work together to reduce illnesses from Vibrio vulnificus – a naturally occurring but potentially fatal bacterium found in Gulf Coast oysters – says the Government Accountability Office.

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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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