Re: Re: To neutralize harmful seafood bacteria w/o cooking?

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>> Question is, is there a way to neutralize the bad bacteria,

>without cooking the seafood?

It's not just bacteria, it is viruses. With shellfish, the problem

specifically is hepatitis, if they are harvested near a sewage outflow.

Personally I will NOT eat raw oysters for this reason! Shellfish

also concentrate the toxins from red tide (which are not neutralized

by cooking AFAIK). Fish are less problematic in this regard, tho they

can get parasites.

When you buy stuff frozen in a market, you are trusting the

suppliers to know their stuff. I've never gotten sick off seafood

myself, though I don't eat it raw. Beef is a safer bet, esp. if you've

seen the beef (is it in decent health?), but a lot of people eat raw

oysters locally and few people really have problems with it. Given

how people treat the oceans nowadays though, you have to make

your own decisions ...

-- Heidi Jean

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