date:Jan 10, 2014
levels in several geoduck samples collected from the same area of Washington that grew the alleged arsenic-heavy shipment. In Alaska, other shellfish harvested were found with allegedly unsafe levels of another poisonous toxin.
Test results showed that on average, arsenic was present in the geoduck bodies at a level of 0.327 parts per million (ppm), which falls below Chinas legal limit of 0.5 ppm. Arsenic in the actual meat of the geoducks registered at 0.063 ppm, eight times lower than the li