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Is Gulf Seafood Safe to Eat?

From Washington's Blog: The Centers of Disease Control (CDC) just announced: For the seafood to pose a health risk, the food would have to be heavily contaminated with oil, and would therefore have a strong odor and taste of oil. That is patently untrue. As I pointed out in June: Crude oil contains such powerful cancer-causing chemicals benzene, toluene,heavy metals and arsenic. *** As Bloomberg notes: ?Oil is a complex mixture containing substances like benzene, heavy metals, arsenic, and polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons -- all known to cause human health problems such as cancer, birth defects or miscarriages,? said Kenneth Olden, founding dean of New York?s CUNY School of Public Health at Hunter College, who is monitoring a panel on possible delayed effects...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on August 17, 2010 (boomark / email).