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NOAA has shut down lucrative commercial fisheries in a vast expanse of the Gulf of Mexico to protect people from the dangers of eating contaminated shellfish and other fish. As scientists try to get a handle on the risk to human health, others are grappling with the even more difficult question: When will it be safe to reopen the fisheries?

Fisheries and Food: Updates

24 August 2010 | ScienceInsider

Bits of Good News From the Gulf

by Robert F. Service
BOSTON—The news out of the Gulf of Mexico doesn't look too bleak, according to preliminary reports here today at the semiannual meeting of the American Chemical Society. The researchers...
Gulf Oil Spill
10 August 2010 | ScienceInsider

Huge Area for Fishing Reopened as Seafood Threat Lessens

by Eli Kintisch
NOAA has reopened more than 13,000 square kilometers of the Gulf of Mexico to fishing. "Since July 3, NOAA data have shown no oil in [this] area," a NOAA...
Gulf Oil Spill
22 July 2010 | ScienceInsider

Good News in Gulf: Government Reduces Area Closed to Fishing by One-Third

by Lauren Schenkman
For the first time in months, the government has good news for Gulf of Mexico fishermen: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has decided to reopen a 68,345...
Gulf Oil Spill
8 June 2010 | ScienceInsider

Scientists, Officials Unite to Speed Seafood Analysis

by Eli Kintisch
Jim Bradford of international analytical chemistry organization AOAC tells ScienceInsider that his group is organizing a meeting on 29 June in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to bring together scientists from state...
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4 June 2010 | ScienceInsider

Inside NOAA's Toxics Testing Lab

by Eli Kintisch
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON—To measure for the presence of oil in seafood, NOAA's scientists in the gulf region use a team of 10 "expert sniffers" trained to detect the distinctive smell....
Gulf Oil Spill
4 June 2010 | ScienceInsider

Federal Seafood Testers Turn From Clean to Oiled Gulf Seas

by Eli Kintisch
SEATTLE, WASHINGTON—As the oil spill has spread in the Gulf of Mexico, federal seafood toxicologists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) have been racing to sample clean...
Gulf Oil Spill
28 May 2010 | ScienceInsider

Emergency Toxics Lab Just in Time for Gulf Disaster

by Eli Kintisch
Analytical chemist Vincent Paez, an official with analytical chemistry giant Thermo Fisher Scientific, set up the new Food Safety Response Center in Dreieich, Germany, this year after feeling that...
Gulf Oil Spill
20 May 2010 | ScienceInsider

What's Happening to Fisheries?

by Richard A. Kerr , Eli Kintisch, Lauren Schenkman, and Erik Stokstad
On 18 May, NOAA shut down fisheries in a 118,000-square-kilometer area in the gulf. The move has threatened the lucrative shellfish industry. But the government says it is crucial...

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