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Title: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: bearpaw on May 27, 2018, 05:41:24 PM: 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
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: Bob33 on May 27, 2018, 06:49:33 PM: What a tragedy, both for humans and sea creatures.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: JimmyHoffa on May 27, 2018, 06:57:46 PM: You really will get a 'food coma' eating too much of that.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: Widgeondeke on May 27, 2018, 07:02:01 PM: Even the sea life knows Seattle invites all the drug users to live here. :yike:

I won't ever go crabbing around Shilshole or Elliott Bay again. :bdid:
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: cbond3318 on May 27, 2018, 07:57:38 PM: 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. :dunno:
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: Mfowl on May 27, 2018, 08:08:47 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: buckcanyonlodge on May 27, 2018, 09:08:22 PM: I call B.S.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: KFhunter on May 27, 2018, 09:14:00 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: robodad on May 27, 2018, 10:46:46 PM: Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on May 27, 2018, 09:08:22 PM
I call B.S.

I don't know man, I used to take opioides for my mussels all the time before surgery :dunno:
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: Pegasus on May 28, 2018, 08:09:04 AM: Just a marketing scam for the mussel industry. Next up will be broccoli.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: Stein on May 28, 2018, 09:09:36 AM: We need some safe injection sites and a declaration of Sanctuary Bay status to protect them.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: Threewolves on June 06, 2018, 08:17:17 PM: 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.
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: Bullkllr on June 06, 2018, 08:21:39 PM: Quote from: Threewolves on June 06, 2018, 08:17:17 PM
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 (https://fortress.wa.gov/doh/eh/maps/biotoxin/biotoxin.html)
Title: Re: Mussels off the coast of Seattle test positive for opioids
Post by: gee_unit360 on June 14, 2018, 09:42:04 AM: Quote from: robodad on May 27, 2018, 10:46:46 PM
Quote from: buckcanyonlodge on May 27, 2018, 09:08:22 PM
I call B.S.

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

LOL hard...