Shrimp Consumption after Deepwater Horizon: No Evidence of Excess Risks for Vietnamese Americans

Janet L. Pelley, MS, based in Toronto, ON, Canada, writes for Chemical & Engineering News and Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. About This Article open Citation: Pelley JL. 2015. Shrimp consumption after Deepwater Horizon: no evidence of excess risks for Vietnamese Americans. Environ Health Perspect 123:A45; http://dx.doi.org/10.1289/ehp.123-A45 News Topics: Cancer, Disaster Response, Food Safety and Regulation, Health Disparities, Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs), Risk Assessment Published: 1 February 2015 PDF Version (393 KB) Related EHP Article A Targeted Health Risk Assessment Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposure in Vietnamese-American Shrimp Consumers Mark J. Wilson, Scott Frickel, Daniel Nguyen, Tap Bui, Stephen Echsner, Bridget R. Simon, Jessi L. Howard, Kent Miller, and Jeffrey K. Wickliffe After the Deepwater Horizon oil well blowout on 20 April 2010, fisheries in the Gulf of Mexico were closed while officials screened seafood for unsafe levels of hydrocarbon contaminants.1 But when federal agencies began reopening fisheries in the summer of 2010, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) affirmation of seafood safety was met with distrust, in part because some felt the agency’s risk assessment didn’t account for coastal populations who eat a heavy diet of seafood.2 A health risk assessment reported in EHP targets one such group—Vietnamese-Americans in southeast Louisian...
Source: EHP Research - Category: Environmental Health Authors: Tags: Featured News Science Selection Cancer Disaster Response February 2015 Food Safety and Regulation Health Disparities Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons (PAHs) Risk Assessment Source Type: research