Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids

[bearpaw]

Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mussels-test-positive-for-opioids-seattle-puget-sound/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

[Bob33]

What a tragedy, both for humans and sea creatures.

[JimmyHoffa]

You really will get a 'food coma' eating too much of that.

[Widgeondeke]

Even the sea life knows Seattle invites all the drug users to live here. 

I won't ever go crabbing around Shilshole or Elliott Bay again. 

[cbond3318]

Sad and disgusting. Sounds like a tax scheme is in order to upgrade the WWTP’s with the technology to start catching drugs. That’s unreal.

Edit: that technology may not even exist.

[Mfowl]

Lame and gross! Didn't they find presciption drugs in trace amounts in salmon smolts a year or two ago? I thought I recall reading an article about that. Something about them nit being disposed of properly and ending up in the waste water.

[buckcanyonlodge]

I call B.S.

[KFhunter]

I believe it. 

Test them at or near the outflow pipes they'd pop in a lab, not like a cop on the side of road with test kit, but in a lab testing very tiny amounts.

[robodad]

I call B.S.

I don't know man, I used to take opioides for my mussels all the time before surgery 

[Pegasus]

Just a marketing scam for the mussel industry. Next up will be broccoli.

[Stein]

We need some safe injection sites and a declaration of Sanctuary Bay status to protect them.

[Threewolves]

If this were true: with all the toilets from Olympia to Tacoma and beyond Seattle figuring at least one dump a day per person shouldn't the Mussels test positive for poo.

[Bullkllr]

If this were true: with all the toilets from Olympia to Tacoma and beyond Seattle figuring at least one dump a day per person shouldn't the Mussels test positive for poo.

Many do.
Check out the map:https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/eh/maps/biotoxin/biotoxin.html

[gee_unit360]

I call B.S.

I don't know man, I used to take opioides for my mussels all the time before surgery 

LOL hard...