SARATOGA SPRINGS — Two of the largest supermarket chains in the area say customers needn’t worry about their seafood being tainted by oil that gushed for nearly three months from a blown well in the Gulf of Mexico until it was capped earlier this week.
That’s because the majority of seafood sold in Northeast supermarkets doesn’t come from that body of water, according to Mona Golub, Price Chopper’s vice president of public relations and consumer services.
However, sales of seafood at Price Chopper’s 119 stores in six states have dipped slightly since the BP-owned well started gushing oil after an explosion April 20, Golub said, enough to lead her to believe that a public misconception about seafood sources does exist in the Capital Region.
“Consumers need to understand that as much as the loss of the Gulf has affected the fisherman there, it has not affected the sourcing supply or the price of supply here,” Golub said. “(The oil spill) has never been an issue in terms of food safety.”
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