I'd love to coordinate with surfrider if you know folks there.
> It really takes minute amounts of mutagenic or tetragenic oil-chemicals to
> make weirdo shrimp and killifish. Transfer through consumption requires
> higher levels, although the levels in the creatures are cause for concern.
> And no one seems to be talking about metals.
> I like this messaging strategy, although LDWF is using FDA standards that
> I / NRDC thinks are too lax. LDWF has to both ensure safety and sell
> shrimp, so their institutional bias is interesting.
> LDWF outlines "how safe is safe"
> http://www.wlf.louisiana.gov/news/33720
> Louisiana Seafood Still Safe to Eat; Average Consumer Could Eat 63 lbs of
> Louisiana Shrimp, Each Day for 5 Years
> An "Average" person is 140 pounds, i think.
> An average person is not pregnant, nor a child themselves.
> An average Gulf Coast resident can eat a lot of shrimp, yessir.
> And an average person living on the bayou cooks those shrimp whole--when a
> lot of the testing is done on the tails only. Many of the metabolites of
> oil wind up in the colon and fatty tissues.
> People on the bayou live on the water, and are the same people, often, who
> worked the VOO program. So coastal communities have multiple routes of
> exposure.
> This is the basis of the NRDC critique
> http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?articleURI=inf...
> and here is Miriam writing about it
> http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mrotkinellman/bp_oil_disaster_two_y...
> http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/mrotkinellman/more_gulf_seafood_tes...
> On the Bayou, shrimp isn't just a food, it's a currency. so the
> statistically convenient person is not a reality. The statistically
> convenient person is someone who lives in a state where we're exporting
> shrimp into.
> Dr. Patricia Williams at UNO (toxicologist) is also critical of the state
> testing methods. She is very concerned about heavy metals, and that
> there's not any or much testing for heavy metals. Arsenic, in her mind, is
> the one she would pick. Arsenic can be detected via urine sample. It's
> problematic, in my mind--Arsenic is in a lot of things.
> She is silenced by the looming trial. But someone recorded her speaking
> and uploaded it to neworleans.indymedia.org.
> As someone who receives gross pictures of local sea creatures every week,
> i am now wary of shrimp boils, but i still eat shrimp in restaurants and
> sandwiches (when it's been prepared or fried). I'm also more than 150
> pounds and not going to bear a child. I'm probably full of mercury
> already.
> I also live in the city. I grew up down here. I eat gulf shrimp from
> restaurants several times a week. I did my master's in shrimp fisheries;
> so, really, if i stop eating shrimp, the terrorists have won. going down
> with the ship.
> so [watch this space]! I guess. ha.
> Not Seafood, but Health related, is something that Public Labs Spectral
> people would be interested in--Surfrider's ongoing attempts to detect
> oil/Corexit with UV lamps.
> Here's that report. the pictures are kinda freaky, because apparently the
> UV is making dispersed oil fluoresce from within people's skin (who wants
> to convince me it's fake? please?)
> Mother Jones.
> http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/04/microbes-arent-eating-oil-...
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lyfdC3_oV4&feature=youtu.be
> From Surfrider:
> http://www.surfrider.org/coastal-blog/entry/monitoring-gulf-beaches-f...
> http://emeraldcoast.surfrider.org/2012/04/surfrider
> -foundation-oil-study-reports-available-for-download/
> "1. The data collected confirms that Corexit dispersant mixed with crude
> oil
> creates a discernible fluorescent signature when illuminated by 370nm
> wavelength (UV) light.
> 2. The use of Corexit as a dispersant has inhibited the microbial
> degradation of
> hydrocarbons in the crude oil and has allowed Polycyclic Aromatic
> Hydrocarbons (PAH) concentration levels to consistently exhibit high
> toxicity
> levels in excess of the carcinogenic exposure level specified by NIH and
> OSHA."
> http://emeraldcoast.surfrider
> .org/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/FindingsReleaseFinal.pdf
> Scott
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Adam Griffith <adamdgriff...@gmail.com>wrote:
>> The FDA article disagrees. Interesting that a group with an interest in
>> the economy would rule that the fish are safe to eat...
>> http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/gulf-seafood-safe-oil-spill-...
>> On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 6:59 AM, Gregory Foster <gfos...@entersection.org
>> > wrote:
>>> Passing along in relation to Public Labs' and the Louisiana Bucket
>>> Brigade <http://labucketbrigade.org/>'s work mapping the spill<http://publiclaboratory.org/place/gulf-coast>
>>> .
>>> Al Jazeera (Apr 18) - "Gulf seafood deformities alarm scientists" by
>>> @DahrJamail <http://twitter.com/DahrJamail>
>>> http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2012/04/201241682318260912....
>>> We all knew it would be bad, but that's a rough read.
>>> gf
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