A peer-reviewed study released this week has concluded that the government’s safety testing methodologies for Gulf of Mexico seafood were insufficient to prevent oil-tainted animals from being sold in U.S. supermarkts.Produced by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and published in the journal Environmental Health Perspective, the study concludes that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) used outdated risk assessment techniques when evaluating the safety of gulf seafood in the wake of the worst accidental oil spill in human history.
Ultimately, the FDA was responsible for allowing food with “10,000 times too much contamination” than should be permitted, the study’s authors said, failing to highlight the elevated risk to children and pregnant women.
Just like we’ve been saying, as Dahr Jamail has been reporting ever since the “spill.”
This kind of thing almost makes me concede a point to the libertarians and conservatives who want to cut government agencies. If they have simply become tools of the corporations, then they aren’t of any use to the people.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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