The FDA is updating this Safety Alert after a related recall was issued by Daihung Mulsan Co., Ltd. (KR 7 SP) of the Republic of Korea (ROK) to include additional harvest dates of certain frozen half shell oysters because they may be contaminated with norovirus. The voluntary recall includes additional oysters that were processed by
Restaurants and food retailers in Hawaii (HI) and California (CA) that have recently purchased individually quick frozen (IQF) oysters, product of Central Fisheries Co., LTD, Republic of Korea (ROK) (KR 6 SP), harvested on 2/28/2023, from Designated Area No. 2, with a use by date of 2/28/2025 and Lot Code # C-20230228.
Consumers in HI
According to the San Francisco Chronical, Hog Island Oyster Co., that supplies upscale restaurants around the Bay Area will soon resume harvesting oysters in Tomales Bay weeks after dozens of people who ate them raw — many of them at New Year’s Eve parties — reported falling ill.
Hog Island Oyster Co., whose oysters and
Jan. 10, 2018, 2:58 p.m.
The Health Department has more reports of ill customers from the suspected norovirus outbreaks at two El Toro restaurants. We have received reports of 232 ill customers at the Tacoma location and four at the one in University Place. We continue to receive more reports and interview more customers.
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A Norovirus outbreak that was traced back to Mama C’s Donuts sickened 266 people. That number continues to climb, according to the Toledo-Lucas County Health Department.
The department also believes the virus was foodborne instead of an environmental issue.
“I would suspect this is a foodborne illness. Again, Norovirus is a flu-like stomach bug, if