Subsistence restoration project: Food safety testing. Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Restoration Project. Final report restoration project 94279
The goal of this project was to restore the confidence of subsistence users in their abilities to determine the safety of their resources. Methods included community meetings, collection and testing of subsistence resources samples for hydrocarbon contamination, accompanying community representatives on tours of the laboratory where tests were conducted and informational newsletters. Over the two years of the project combined, 228 composite samples of edible tissues from shellfish were tested. The bile of forty rockfish, six sockeye salmon, twelve seals, twenty-three ducks were tested for the presence of hydrocarbon metabolites. Edible tissue (blubber) from seals was also tested. Generally, the tests showed such low levels of hydrocarbons and their metabolites, as to be within the test`s margin of error. The project was partly successful in disseminating the subsistence food safety advice of the Oil Spill Health Task Force and in improving the level of trust in the results of hydrocarbon tests on the resources.
- Research Organization:
- Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game, Anchorage, AK (United States). Div. of Subsistence
- OSTI ID:
- 590869
- Report Number(s):
- PB-98-126493/XAB; TRN: 80902891
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: DN: See also PB--95-966008 and PB--96-208426; PBD: May 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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