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Friday Nov 13 | Posted by: roboblogger

FDA backs off oyster ban after strong criticism

Full story: Kansas City Star

Facing fierce resistance, the Obama administration on Friday backed off a plan to ban sales of raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico during warm-weather months.The Food and Drug Administration said it would put the proposal on hold while it studies ways to make the popular shellfish safer.The abrupt turnaround came as oyster-lovers and industry ...

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triple6vamp

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Sunday Nov 15
 
If you like eating snot you'll enjoy oysters
JourneyJerker

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Sunday Nov 15
 
triple6vamp wrote:
If you like eating snot you'll enjoy oysters
I sure as heck don't need an FDA ban...I wouldn't touch one, not even for the pearl.
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JourneyJerker wrote:
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I sure as heck don't need an FDA ban...I wouldn't touch one, not even for the pearl.
I cant eat them raw but deep fried they're pretty good.
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At least I hope thats what they were and not rocky mountain oysters.

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triple6vamp wrote:
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I cant eat them raw but deep fried they're pretty good.
Check-out this article: http://www.thedailygreen.com/healthy-eating/b...

from the article..."On November 13, the FDA announced indefinite postponement of rules requiring raw oysters from the Gulf of Mexico to undergo postharvest processing to destroy their content of Vibrio vulnificus, a particularly nasty "flesh-eating" bacterium.

FLESH EATING BACTERIA?? What moron would risk this?? I'm thinking they do not know this.
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