Recall issued for oysters harvested from Hood Canal September
23, 2011 · 2:13 PM OLYMPIA — Distributors, retailers,
restaurants, and consumers have been advised not to eat, sell,
or ship oysters harvested between Aug. 30 and Sept. 19 from
Washington’s Hood Canal growing area No. 4. The state Department
of Health made the recommendations, including contacting people
who bought the oysters over the Internet, as part of a recall of
oysters in the shell harvested in that growing area between
those dates. The agency closed oyster harvesting in the area
after five people who ate raw oysters containing Vibrio
parahaemolyticus, got sick with an illness called vibriosis. The
recall is a precautionary action to make sure that no oysters in
the shell harvested from Hood Canal No. 4, in this time period,
are still for sale or in the hands of consumers. State health
officials order a recall when two or more unrelated cases of
vibriosis are linked to the same source of oysters from the
growing area. There have been several