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Originally Posted by TheSurfcaster
Oil Spill Dispersants are widely used but........
The dispersant in use in the Gulf Oil Spill.....Go to the web site for the manufacture, NALCO, find the MSDS sheet for COREXIT 9500 that's provided and take a look. It's ten pages. From the MSDS sheet,
" Human Hazard Characterization: Based upon our hazard characterization, the potential human hazard is: Moderate".
It's nasty stuff! The fishermen in the Gulf are slowly returning to work but after reading this MSDS sheet I wonder how the fish and shrimp are both today and in the future?
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According to Wikipedia, the EPA found Corex to be "either similarly toxic or 10 to 20 times more toxic" when compared to 12 other options.
Seems like the EPA has told BP to stop using Corex a couple times and BP has refused. I wonder if there's any coincidence between BP's preference for Corex and their association with Nalco Holding Company, the company that produces Corex.
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Originally Posted by slow eddie
the thing that you have to ask yourself, would i eat any fish or shrimp from the gulf.
we saw on the tube what the skimmers did but not what was lurking under the waves. that's where the heavier crude lies.
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Not a chance. Corex has been shown to bio-accumulate, so it will be interesting (and depressing) to see what animals further up the food chain will be affected.