FDA allowed unsafe seafood after BP spill

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"AMERICA'S Food and Drug Administration (FDA) allowed unsafe levels of contaminants in seafood after the BP oil spill in 2010"

Researchers from the Natural Resources Defence Council (NDRC) said the FDA seriously underestimated the cancer risk from contaminants that can accumulate in seafood when the agency allowed commercial fishing to resume in the Gulf of Mexico - where the leak occurred 41 miles (66km) off the Louisiana coast - after the disaster.

"Our findings add to a long list of evidence that FDA is overlooking the risks from chemical contaminants in food," study author Miriam Rotkin-Ellman said. "We must not wait for people to get sick or cancer rates to rise, we need FDA to act now to protect the food supply."


This is frightning when you take into account Japans nuclear disaster and the fact that the Gulf oil spill is not over yet and people are still eating deadly seafood.