Benzene not limited to crude exposure, Fox 8 New Orleans, February 7, 2011:
James Diaz, M.D., of the LSU School of Public Health... said he is concerned about the various forms of alcohol in the dispersant and its chemical reactions.
"The glycols that the dispersants contained....some could be potentially deleterious because they are converted to alcohol compounds, so that we should be concerned about exposures and things like fetal alcohol syndrome in pregnant patients," stated Diaz.
http://www.sciencelab.com/xMSDS-Benzene-9927339
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaqs/tf.asp?id=85&tid=21
There are serious effects of exposure to these chemicals......
http://www.osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/xylene/recognition.htm
http://osha.gov/SLTC/healthguidelines/n-hexane/recognition.html
... they refer to these-- one ---central nervous system suppression,the other polyneuropathy.
All of the "results" of exposure are more serious than tipsy pregnant women having tipsy children.
http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_grant_money_expected_to_fin.html
http://www.lsureveille.com/opinion/fanning-the-flames-bp-s-grant-to-university-could-be-propaganda-1.2277905
How much truth --can be expected out of LSU?