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This FDA policy is another display of the nanny-state mentality. Area restaurants already warn patrons about consuming raw oysters at their own risk.
This is NOT about saving a life due to oyster bacteria... it IS all about control and destroying the economy, one chink at a time.
An average 30 people/year get sick from this. 15 of them die. How much is the gubmint spending to save 15 lives? How much will this cost Louisiana businesses? This is such a load of dung, and I don’t even eat oysters. We’re from the government, and we’re here to help!
My body, my bacteria.
How long until restaurants require you to sign a waiver to eat raw oysters.
Oysters on the half shell at “the Pearl”,
then coffee and beignets at Morning Call.
Yes that was a while ago.
Morning Call was really the best, marble counters,
150 watt bulbs( it was so bright you needed sun glasses
at night), and a mixed crowd from construction
workers to debutants, musicians, entertainers, and
just plain folk.
And to think, when I was a kid we actually cheated death by drinking water from a garden hose.....
The government needs to get out of our lives, period.
I’ve consumed quite a lot of them and my recommendation is that, just to be on the safe side, you should only eat raw oysters in months that have an “r” in them. Learned that from all of the raw oysters eating relatives that came before me.
I usually like raw oysters but I once became very ill after eating at a local restaurant that specializes in oysters. It wasn’t like normal food poisoning. I just felt terrible and had no energy for several days. I wondered if it had something to do with the so-called “red tide”. I couldn’t figure out how a restaurant that should have had decades of experience with oysters could screw up. But it is believable that raw oysters might not always be the safest thing to eat.
Oysters, mmm!...mmm!...mmm!
I don’t do “raw oysters”, but I do like ‘em fried. That being said, this is nuts. How about requiring a warning about raw or undercooked seafood, and the risk is on the consumer.
Oh - wait, that is already being done.
Hello- if someone wants to engage in a possibly risky meal, that is their call. Arrrggghhh.. Just use reasonable care in the harvest, storage, and serving of the product. Warn the consumer, and then be done with it.
A generous splash of Tabasco will kill any bacteria.
Just don’t eat oysters during any month with an “r” in it.
Or is it any month without an “r” in it? Now I forget.
In case anybody is interested, the Louisiana Department of Health & Hospitals has a Molluscan Shellfish Program which monitors oyster production in the state:
http://www.dhh.louisiana.gov/offices/?ID=214
Good morning! I’m pinging the folks who commented on this thread because on the local news (Monroe) last night, there was a story that the Obama administration had backed-off the proposed guidelines that would have destroyed a good portion of the oyster economy here in Louisiana. Seems there was a pretty big uproar from “We The People”.
Bbut if they sterilize them, how will they reproduce??