Reporter Miriam Wang of the ProPublica blog points out that although seafood from the Gulf has been tested for oil content, testers at the Food and Drug Administration [3] (FDA) neglected to test whether the chemical dispersant applied to the oil in the Gulf could be found in the seafood. She writes, "[The] National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the FDA and the Gulf states have been rigorously testing Gulf seafood for oil ... But they’re not chemically testing -- at least, not yet -- for the presence of oil dispersant. BP has thus far applied more than 1.7 million gallons of one chemical dispersant, Corexit [4], to the Gulf." The major problem: the FDA has not the slightest idea what effects the dispersant has on sea animals that become seafood. “There’s not a huge body of research that has been done,” Meghan Scott, an FDA spokeswoman, said in the article. “While we are finding that [dispersant] is harmful to the living fish itself, there’s a difference between what it does to a living fish and any harm that it might have for a human consuming a fish that was in or near water with dispersant in it.”