FDA Not Testing Gulf Seafood for Mercury, Arsenic or Other Heavy Metals Because "We Do Not Expect to See an Increase Based on this Spill"
Congressman Markey's subcomittee...got the Food and Drug Administration to admit that fish are not being tested from oiled areas...
The FDA also admitted that it is not testing for mercury, arsenic or other toxic heavy metals, because - wait for it - the FDA doesn't expect to see an increase of these toxins from the oil spill...
The FDA's statement is similar to NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco's recent assertion that oil doesn't bioaccumulate in fish, and that fish naturally "degrade and process" the oil.
The FDA also admitted that it is not testing for the most toxic bioaccumulating metabolites of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons.
George Washington
via Tyler
8/21/10
Why isn't the the government testing for Mercury etc..., from the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico?
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First it was asbestos, now it is lead in older homes. Lawyers made fortunes on asbestos, government is cashing in on lead. Mercury will be perhaps the next panic when lead has ceased to produce big bucks. How did we survive these things back 60 years ago and since then?
Perhaps some can remember when mercurochrome and merthiolate were standard items in the home medicine cabinet and in doctor's offices.
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