Gulf Seafood Is Safe, Officials Say

Extensive testing of Gulf of Mexico seafood by federal scientists has found just minute traces of the dispersant Corexit, which was used to break up oil from the BP spill, officials say. About 1.8 million gallons of dispersant were applied to the waters’ surface and at the wellhead, almost a mile undersea.Of 1,735 tissue samples analyzed, only 13 showed trace amounts of dispersant residue, in