Who do you trust? « Disenfranchised Citizen BP Oil Spill

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_Who do you trust? « Disenfranchised Citizen_

(http://draketoulouse.com/2010/12/29/who-do-you-trust/)

One of the toxicologists on ’s litigation team pursuing BP was Dr.

Sawyer…he’s calling the Food and Drug Administration’s safety test

“

little more than a farce…they did not test the [total petroleum

hydrocarbons] (TPH) in their samples,†he said, calling his testing

methodologies a

much more comprehensive way of examining compounds present in seafood when

compared to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tests.

Dr. Sawyer added that some of his test samples came from seafood on its

way to market, pulled from waters that had only recently been classified as

safe for commercial fishing activities. “The sensory test employed by the FDA

detects compounds that are volatile that have an odor; we’re detecting

compounds that are low volatility and are very low odor,†he added. “We

found

not only petroleum in the digestive tracts [of shrimp], but also in the

edible portions of fish. We’ve collected shrimp, oysters and finned fish on

their way to marketplace — we tested a good number of seafood samples and in

100 percent we found petroleum.â€