A review of seafood safety after the Deepwater Horizon blowout

Environmental Health Perspectives

Volumn 119, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1062-1069

  Gohlke, Julia M ^a   Doke, Dzigbodi ^a   Tipre, Meghan ^a   Leader, Mark ^a   Fitzgerald, Timothy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

Deepwater Horizon; Dispersants; Gulf of Mexico; Heavy metals; Oil spill; Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; Risk assessment; Seafood

Indexed keywords

2 BUTOXYETHANOL; DOCUSATE SODIUM; METAL; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; PROPYLENE GLYCOL;

BIOACCUMULATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH HAZARD; INFORMATION DISSEMINATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; OIL SPILL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEA FOOD; TOXICITY TESTING; WATER QUALITY; WATER SAMPLING;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOOD SAFETY; HUMANS; PETROLEUM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEAFOOD; WATER POLLUTANTS, CHEMICAL;

EID: 79961079205     PISSN: 00916765     EISSN: 15529924     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1289/ehp.1103507     Document Type: Review

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