BATON ROUGE — Louisiana officials seeking to erase the stereotype of tainted shrimp, crab and fish dirtied by the Gulf oil spill unveiled a new website Friday that contains test results they say prove to restaurants and consumers that the state’s seafood is safe to eat.
The website, www.gulfsource.org, shows data collected by the Louisiana departments of wildlife and fisheries, environmental quality, health and hospitals, and agriculture and forestry.
Health and Hospitals Secretary Bruce Greenstein said of more than 2,100 samples taken over the last year since the massive oil spill, no sample of seafood, water or sediment has tested near the federally established “level of concern.”
“Our seafood in Louisiana is absolutely the most tested seafood in the world, and we’ve got a lot of data we want to share with the public,” said Wildlife and Fisheries Secretary Robert Barham. “We obviously have to overcome consumer resistance to Louisiana seafood, and part of the process is education.”
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