re: #151 EB71
I see your point, but apples and oranges, to a degree. The seafood can be monitored and tested for known pollutants, as it has always been, and there are acceptable standards as a guideline. The oil is a known substance. The air quality after 9-11 was somewhat of a mystery, since no one knew exactly what composed the fumes, no one knew how any one individual would react to what levels of pollution and how long it would take for any damage to show up. A lot depended upon how close one was to the actual blast, how long one was exposed, etc.