NOAA continues to test Gulf of Mexico seafood for oil contamination

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is continuing to test seafood from the Gulf of Mexico to demonstrate to American and worldwide consumers that it is safe to eat.

The agency announced Thursday that it will continue the re-testing into the summer.
Before waters were re-opened to fishing after the BP oil spill, NOAA and the FDA extensively tested seafood from the afected waters, and NOAA has now completed two additional rounds of sampling and testing from the reopened areas.
Areas once closed to fishing were reopened only when all seafood sampled in the area passed both the established sensory and chemical testing for oil and dispersant.  
The nearly 500 samples in the two rounds of post-opening testing are comprised of more than 4,300 fish and shrimp.
They are a representative sample of the commercially and recreationally important fish in the Gulf taken from the nearly 88 thousand square miles of the Gulf that have been reopened to fishing.
An area covering over one thousand square miles immediately surrounding the wellhead still remains closed to all commercial and recreational fishing.
The thousands of test results are all publicly available over the internet.
You can find the link to see the test results on this story at oysterradio.com.

http://www.noaa.gov/deepwaterhorizon/data/seafood_safety.html


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