Posted on 01/10/2023 8:20:45 AM PST by Red Badger
Those sweet shellfish may be tempting, but eating oysters in Florida has been dangerous this year.
Oysters have sickened people in the Sunshine State with three different types of illnesses, at least one of them deadly.
Federal officials issued a warning recently for raw oysters harvested in Galveston Bay, Texas, and sold in Florida, along with seven other states. The oysters were potentially contaminated with norovirus and sold to restaurants and retailers. About 211 people were infected by the oysters and had diarrhea, vomiting and stomach pain within 12 to 48 hours after eating them.
Publix Supermarkets said it sold the shell-on oysters in its fresh seafood display case at its Publix and Publix Greenwise locations and warned the public of the recall.
Southport Raw Bar & Restaurant stopped selling oysters from the Gulf. "We got notification about the recall so we are no longer using oysters from the Gulf and getting them from Connecticut and Maryland instead," manager Mike Cudnik said.
The recall of Texas oysters that sickened people comes a few weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a recall of a brand of frozen raw oysters harvested in an area of South Korea and distributed in 13 states including Florida. The agency said the oysters from South Korea are suspected of causing sapovirus infections, which is acute gastroenteritis causing vomiting and diarrhea.
This summer, oysters from Louisiana sickened Floridians. A Broward County man died after eating a raw oyster from Louisiana at a Fort Lauderdale seafood restaurant. It was the second death in Florida within weeks from Vibrio vulnificus, a bacteria that lives in coastal waters and typically sickens people through the consumption of raw shellfish or by entering an open wound, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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“Florida sued Georgia over it some years ago, but I don’t know what happened so far with the case.....”
SCOTUS DISMISSED IT.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/supremecourt/text/20O0142
I lived in Norcross in 1980......................
It doesn’t taste as good, though................🤢
I all too well understand just that experience.
Thanks. Stinkers.
Once, I ate a dozen oysters, and only four of them worked.
I was in a suburb in the early 2000s when it was growing so fast. Water Police. Mud coming out of the faucets. Lake Allatoona looked like a big mud puddle. I’m not one for government interference, but when a city outgrows its water, it’s past time to stop growing!
No, the Florida beds are not shut down due to contamination — Atlanta sucked up all the water that used to flow into Apalachicola Bay and ruined the salinity for the oyster beds there. Apalachicola Bay used to provide 10% of the USA’s oysters. Now all ruined thanks to stinking too-big-for-its-water-sources Atlanta.
Beach erosion and loss of barrier islands is actually from silt no longer flowing down our rivers, too — and also from dredging shipping lanes. They say it’s Climate Change, but it’s the reservoirs, overuse of river water by cities too big for their water sources, also the dredging.
Tell me more about Navarre. Only have done day visits there so far. We usually go to Okaloosa.
Sounds like we fled Atlanta suburbs at the right time, 1989. Lived in Marietta. Moved to Ohio for a job, and fell in the love with the genuine folks in the Midwest. Have stayed, but often consider moving back to the South. Just don’t know where or when.
I love the Panhandle but have decided against living in a beach town. Better to visit.
If it was before 2022 or 2021 you were safe...............
“R” in season meant don’t eat them in warm weather.
Is Global Warming the problem?
Had my first raw oyster in Annapolis, MD. Can’t wait to go back for more.
Warm months, May thru August, months with out ‘R’ in them, are the mating season for many forms of marine life, especially shellfish..........
I save chicken skin and make my own gribenes (heaven!). The resulting schmaltz is the best for frying latkes. My Polish great grandparents lived in a Jewish neighborhood in Philadelphia. My granddad was friends with Jack Klugman when he was a boy.
You got it. I would never eat raw oysters south of Norfolk Virginia regsrdless of the month. Chespeake bay oysters are OK raw September through April. I’ve seen people trying to harvest skunk oysters and have warned them of how dangerous they are. Skunk oysters are those out of water at low tide. I like ‘em raw but mostly fried - especially in po boys.
It's what these chains do, you could have top-shelf oysters from Apalachicola on one part of the menu, but on the next page, as part of a fried seafood basket, or as a stuffing staple, those oysters might be from the commercial LaTex oyster farms or worse.
If even one of those nuggets or that stuffed dover sole didn't sustain 165F dead-center for three minutes, Vibrio lives on. No one is watching the cook times in some of these joints. "Ohp dem fries is burnin', dump them out. How long dis sole been undah dah broiler? Is dat stuffin? Whatevah, good enough."
And then you ask and the waitress is unsure, the asst manager is unsure, the chef knows but he's out back getting high.
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