Photo: Andrew Dunn
Consumers are wondering: Petroleum contamination is known to cause cancer and brain damage. But how much oil and gas does it take to make seafood dangerous?; Who’s in charge of determining how safe is safe?; What exactly is FDA’s role in this process?; How can you really tell where seafood is coming from? Is there any way to distinguish a gulf shrimp from a Pacific one?
AOL News spent the past two weeks chasing down precisely who is doing that testing and how they decide what is safe to eat.
Measuring contaminant levels is the easy part. But the decision to declare the food safe or not appears to be a thornier debate, sometimes fraught with political implications, finger-pointing and, occasionally, debilitating fear of saying or doing the wrong thing.
READ THIS STORY AT AOLNEWS.COM
Photo: Andrew Dunn
Consumers are wondering: Petroleum contamination is known to cause cancer and brain damage. But how much oil and gas does it take to make seafood dangerous?; Who’s in charge of determining how safe is safe?; What exactly is FDA’s role in this process?; How can you really tell where seafood is coming from? Is there any way to distinguish a gulf shrimp from a Pacific one?
AOL News spent the past two weeks chasing down precisely who is doing that testing and how they decide what is safe to eat.
Measuring contaminant levels is the easy part. But the decision to declare the food safe or not appears to be a thornier debate, sometimes fraught with political implications, finger-pointing and, occasionally, debilitating fear of saying or doing the wrong thing.
READ THIS STORY AT AOLNEWS.COM
Niamh Marnell earned a master's degree in social sciences from the University of Chicago where she examined organizations and power from the perspective of political science and sociology. You can follow her at http://twitter.com/NiamhMarnell.
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