Alabama’s coastal waters were all reopened for fishing last week, but government scientists will still be doing precautionary seafood testing. Testing will be done on open and closed waters fish and other seafood as well as sampling of dockside and marketplace catches. There is no expectation of food contamination as none of the 1,200 samples examined by Food and Drug Administration laboratories in Mississippi and Washington state have shown dangerous results. Nevertheless, testing will proceed for obvious precautionary reasons. It is not known what the long-term effects of the April oil spill will be on the Gulf fisheries, and many commercial fishermen are still holding off for more definitive results from the seafood testing.
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Are the waters and fish being tested for the ester created by the dispersant?
Are the fish being tested only by olafactory tests?
What test are being done and what are the results?
(please publish results)