Oil Spill Clean-Up May Be More Harmful to Fish than the Oil Spill

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Oil spills just got messier. According to a biologist at Queen's University, the detergents used to clean oil spills may be more harmful to fish than the oil that gets spilled. Biology professor Peter Hodson warns that the oil-dispersing detergents that do such a bang-up job of degrading and diluting oil in the long term increase the bioavailability and the toxicity of the oil to rainbow trout by 100-fold in the short term.

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