Environmental Health Officer Professional Advisory Committee

The EHOPAC is a professional organization representing Environmental Health Professionals to the Office of the Surgeon General of the United States Public Health Service.  It's members are Environmental Health Professionals selected from the various organizations within the Department of Health and Human Services and agencies that employ commissioned officers in the category.

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) establishes mobile chemistry laboratory to test seafood for oil

Tallahassee, Florida - It has now been a week since oil first hit Florida's coast.  And concern is growing for what the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico will mean for Florida's seafood.  That's where this mobile chemistry laboratory comes in.  The FDA has set it up in Tallahassee, to provide extra capacity in case the state's lab is bombarded with seafood tests.

They're looking for any oil that may be found in oysters, shrimp and crabs.  Seafood testing must be done before any federal waters are reopened.  Right now a third of federal waters have been closed to fishing.

Video - CDR Stewart Watson discusses the FDA's mobile chemistry lab in Tallahassee, FL.