FDA Allowed Unsafe Seafood Onto Market After BP Oil Spill Disaster
A study accuses the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) of allowing seafoods with unsafe levels of contaminants to enter the food chain after the BP oil disaster.
...Rotkin-Ellman wrote that the FDA had calculated that 123,000 micrograms of naphthalene [a PAH] per kg of shrimp was a safe level for human consumption. According to the calculations of her team, the limit should have been 5.91 micrograms if pregnant women and children who eat a lot of seafood are to be protected. Even for non-pregnant adults, they worked out that the safe limit should only be 46.99 micrograms of naphthalene per kg of shellfish.
