But what most people don't know is that the active ingredient of the toxic chemical dispersant, which is up to 60% by volume, being.    From Wordnik.com.  [WN.com - Business News] Reference

"dispersant" - to try to break up the oozing oil, allowing it to decompose more quickly or evaporate before washing ashore.    From Wordnik.com.  [msnbc.com: Top msnbc.com headlines] Reference

Rather than trying to address a toxic spill with toxic "dispersant" chemicals, we should rely on greener solutions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Van Jones: The Gulf Will Be Beautiful Again] Reference

The dispersants - As part of the containment effort, BP has been using a record-setting amount of what they call "dispersant".    From Wordnik.com.  [Shawna Vercher: 5 Hard Truths -- Florida Leaders Briefed on the Spill] Reference

They of course are now rejecting a certain kind of dispersant BP uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hot Air » Top Picks] Reference

Q: So why do they say dispersant isn't a seafood threat?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Seafood Gets Intense Safety Testing] Reference

This is much more likely to be the oil/dispersant package.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II] Reference

The dispersant, she said, is like "a delivery system" for the oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientists Find Evidence That Oil And Dispersant Mix Is Making Its Way Into The Foodchain] Reference

They say BP then flew in dispersant planes to spray it so it sank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Kistner: Countering BP's PR: Deception by Dispersal; The Great Gulf Oil Tragedy] Reference

The dispersant chemicals used to break-up the oil are alsoa concern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gina Solomon: The Gulf Oil Spill and Seafood Safety] Reference

JC: Was the same dispersant, Corexit used on the Exxon/Vladez spill?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II] Reference

An Exxon spokesman declined to comment on the company's dispersant work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Success on Surface, Questions Below] Reference

Assess the potential for contamination of seafood by dispersant chemicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gina Solomon: Assessment of Gulf Seafood Safety Needs to Protect Vulnerable Populations] Reference

There is fresh toxic dispersant being released every day on top of the oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II] Reference

Q: But what about that controversial dispersant - are the feds testing for it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Seafood Undergoes Intense Testing] Reference

Q: But what about that controversial dispersant – are the feds testing for it?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Seafood Gets Intense Safety Testing] Reference

Scientists have found that the oil-dispersant mixture is getting into the foodweb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: Seafood Safety and Politics Don't Mix: Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence of Harm] Reference

A: Some dispersant chemicals are FDA-regulated ingredients in skin creams and even foods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf Seafood Gets Intense Safety Testing] Reference

The US Senate's environment committee yesterday began a hearing on BP's use of dispersant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf oil spill: US scientists reject talk of plumes and report 75% of slick has gone] Reference

For most of the lifespan of the spill, BP was directly injecting dispersant into the gusher.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob Cesca: The BP Disaster Continues Despite the Cheerful Happy Talk] Reference

The total number of people sickened from exposure to the oil and dispersant will never be known.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II] Reference

The BP oil disaster clean-up has involved an unprecedented volume of use of dispersant chemicals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gina Solomon: Assessment of Gulf Seafood Safety Needs to Protect Vulnerable Populations] Reference

Fishing shouldn't resume, he said, until more data exist and better dispersant testing is devised.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oil Spill: Gulf Fishermen Distrust Government Seafood Testing, Don't Think Fisheries Are Safe To Open] Reference

Riki Ott's book, Sound Truth, describes many dispersant-exposed workers with similar health problems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II] Reference

Some scientists say that the effects of the dispersant are less harmful, or no worse, than the oil itself.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gulf oil spill: US scientists reject talk of plumes and report 75% of slick has gone] Reference

BP has already stated that it is "not responsible" for any long-term effects from its dispersant experiment.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: Seafood Safety and Politics Don't Mix: Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence of Harm] Reference

His symptoms matched the kind of internal hemorrhaging that results from exposure to a dispersant ingredient.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II] Reference

He's seen and heard dispersant planes flying around nearby Barataria Bay, one of the hardest hit areas by the oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rocky Kistner: Countering BP's PR: Deception by Dispersal; The Great Gulf Oil Tragedy] Reference

Oil plume and telltale dispersant bubbles in St. Joe Bay, Florida, offer one explanation for fish kill on August 5, 2010.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riki Ott: Seafood Safety and Politics Don't Mix: Opening of Gulf Fisheries at Odds With Evidence of Harm] Reference

But the consequences for the food chain in the gulf are completely unknown, and the dispersant is just as toxic as the oil.    From Wordnik.com.  [A deadly addiction: figures confirm BP well blowout is history's biggest accidental marine spill] Reference

We saw only a school of golden rays and they, sadly, were swimming right in the dispersant streams and toward oil under the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Georgianne Nienaber: Flyover at the Macondo Wellhead: Damage Control at "The Source"] Reference

She speculates that the crabs may have molted in the midst of oil or dispersant and trapped some of it literally inside themselves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Majority of spilled oil in Gulf of Mexico unaccounted for in government data] Reference

Now it's posted but it was never posted until people really started getting sick. they knew the dispersant was already in the water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry Cope: The Jaws Syndrome; Life Imitates Art On The Gulf Coast; The Crime of the Century Pt II] Reference