{"id":273,"date":"2010-06-08T06:19:55","date_gmt":"2010-06-08T11:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scripts.mit.edu\/~zong\/wpress\/?p=273"},"modified":"2010-06-08T06:19:55","modified_gmt":"2010-06-08T11:19:55","slug":"sniffing-for-oil-and-detergent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/?p=273","title":{"rendered":"sniffing for oil and detergent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/stories\/2010\/06\/07\/national\/main6556697.shtml\">Trained Noses to Sniff Out Gulf Seafood for Oil<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>William Mahan bends over a bowl of raw shrimp and inhales deeply, using his left hand to wave the scent up toward his nose. Deep breath. Exhale. Repeat. He clears his palate with a bowl of freshly cut watermelon before moving on to raw oysters. Deep breath. Exhale. Repeat. <\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of about 40 inspectors trained recently at a federal fisheries lab in Pascagoula, Miss., to sniff out seafood tainted by oil in the Gulf of Mexico and make sure the product reaching consumers is safe to eat. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh god help us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trained Noses to Sniff Out Gulf Seafood for Oil William Mahan bends over a bowl of raw shrimp and inhales deeply, using his left hand to wave the scent up toward his nose. Deep breath. Exhale. Repeat. He clears his palate with a bowl of freshly cut watermelon before moving on to raw oysters. Deep [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[372,370,375,2150,371,367,369,376,373,374],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bowl","tag-gulf-seafood","tag-oil","tag-oil-in-the-gulf-of-mexico","tag-pascagoula-miss","tag-raw-oysters","tag-raw-shrimp","tag-scent","tag-shrimp","tag-sniff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.yhuang.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}