Scientists and Doctors Sound Alarm Over Health Dangers of Oil Spill Dispersants

Source: Scientists and Doctors Sound Alarm Over Health Dangers of Oil Spill Dispersants

Shaw, who has been studying the health effects of chemical exposure for more than 30 years, explained that even BP’s Material Safety Data Sheets for Corexit, which were widely available throughout the oil industry well in advance of the BP disaster, warned that the dispersant posed high and immediate human health hazards, but the company, of course, used it anyway. “BP told the public that Corexit was ‘as harmless as Dawn dishwashing liquid.’”