date:Jan 10, 2014
e Department of Health. Church added that the U.S. has no legal standard for arsenic in shellfish.
To double-check their results, the health department also hired out a private laboratory to perform independent testing. That lab found its geoduck samples averaged 0.108 ppm across the skin, guts and meat, falling well below the results of the health department tests.
The health department handed its test results over to the Seafood Inspection Program within the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmosph