Before you dig into that platter of freshly shucked oysters or baked clams at your favorite seafood restaurant, better make sure you know from where the shellfish originated. The U.S. Food and ...

San Diego County health officials on Friday advised residents to avoid shellfish not purchased from a state-certified ...

The shells of clams, cockles, mussels and oysters should be tightly shut or should shut immediately if you tap them - when this type of shellfish die, they decompose quickly and may not be safe to ...

California health officials are warning the public not to eat sport-harvested shellfish from San Diego County due to high ...

According to the county, the warnings don’t apply to shellfish sold at stores from approved sources, including local markets or restaurants, “because state law allows only state-certified commercial ...

San Diego County warns against eating non-commercial shellfish due to toxic domoic acid levels found in local mussels.

Dangerous levels of domoic acid prompted state health officials to warn the public about not eating sport-harvested mussels, ...

Shellfish continue to be contaminated in the area. Submitted photo Nearly three and a half months after roughly 7,500 litres of diesel oil seeped into the marine environment near Tahsis on the west ...

The alert was issued Wednesday after tests showed mussels from the county had a higher level of the paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins. The toxin could lead to PSP and domoic acid ...