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Health Consultation: Evaluation of Blue Mussel Samples Collected in May 2006, M/V Selendang Ayu Oil Spill, Unalaska, Alaska. February 11, 2008. US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (PDF 307K)
Press Release: Subsistence foods near Selendang Ayu wreck sampled for contaminants (PDF 101K))
M/V Selendang Ayu Oil Spill Unalaska, Alaska Public Health Evaluation of Subsistence Resources Collected During 2005, Final Report, April 18, 2006, Scott Arnold, Ph.D. (13 pgs, PDF 597K)
Appendix A: Methods Used for Collection of Subsistence Fishery Samples and Survey of Subsistence Food Consumption, prepared by Polaris Applied Sciences, Inc. (9 pages, PDF 597K)
Appendix B: Subsistence Tissue Data - Forensic Review, prepared by Environmental Forensics Practice, LLC (3 pages, PDF 41K)

Reference Documents
Subsistence Food Use in Unalaska and Nikolski: Final Report to Institute for Circumpolar Health (2003)
Resource Utilization in Unalaska, Aleutian Islands. ADFG Technical Paper (1983)
Subsistence Harvest of Pacific Halibut in 2003. ADFG Technical Paper (2004)
Managing Seafood Safety after an Oil Spill. NOAA (2002)
Health Consultation for M/V Kuroshima Oil Spill (1999)
Fact Sheet: Shellfish Consumption Safety following M/V Kuroshima Oil Spill (1998)
Results of the M/V Kuroshima Oil Spill ShellfishTissue Analysis 1999, 2000 and 2004 (2004)
M/V Kuroshima Shellfish Sampling Program (1998)
NOAA Protocols for Collecting NRDA Shellfish Samples (1997)

Additional documents published by the Alaska Department of Health and Social Services, Division of Public Health
ADPH/Epidemiology documents associated with subsistence foods (including oil spills)

Available for purchase on other websites:
Evaluating and Communicating Seafood Safety in a Cross-Cultural Context: Lessons Learned from the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill. SETAC (1999)
Communicating Across Cultures video series
   

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