Hungry for a bit of seafood? The government's trying to make sure that what coming out of the Gulf is safe to eat.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s staff have been taking samples of oysters, crab, shrimp and fish from Mobile Bay, Ala., and other untainted areas of the Gulf this week. The samples are then being sent off to the agency’s labs in Gloucester, Mass., and Seattle, Wash., for chemical analysis and other tests.
The agency is also pulling samples of seafood from wholesale outlets and retailers in Gulf Coast states for testing, said agency spokesman Brian Gorman.
The goal, he said, was to establish a baseline of “what healthy fish and healthy water looks like, so we have something to compare it to as the days go by.”
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