The Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services continued testing shows Gulf seafood is safe to eat, which is music to the ears of local seafood providers.
“It helps immensely,” Pete Blaylock, owner of Blaylock Seafood and Specialty Market told The Log Monday. “What I try and tell people is that our Gulf seafood is tested more now than it has been in the past 20 years.
Since last year’s Deepwater Horizon oil spill, the Department of Agriculture has screened hundreds of seafood samples from the Gulf of Mexico and found that Florida’s seafood hasn’t been affected by the spill.
Between August 2010 and June 2011, the department’s division of food safety tested nearly 300 seafood samples, ranging from fish, shrimp and oysters to crabs, lobsters and clams for possible contamination.
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