I've never had a problem w/raw oysters in all my years of eating them - but there are certain months in which they are not harvested (can't remember which ones) something about toxicity or whatever - this may be what some people are alluding to Sharen Rund Bloechl Lockheed Martin Enterprise Information Systems Sunnyvale Data Center sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com <mailto:sharen.rund.bloechl@lmco.com> Phone: 408-756-5432 [or] Fax: 408-756-0912 srund@svl.ems.lmco.com <mailto:srund@svl.ems.lmco.com> LMnet: 8-326-5432 Pager: 408-539-5146 web: http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi <http://webpager.lmms.lmco.com/perl/mtrocall.cgi> [or] Operator Assist: 1-800-725-5079, pin 408-539-5146 ---------- From: rain@wwbbs.otherside.com [SMTP:rain@wwbbs.otherside.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 09, 1999 6:32 PM To: chile-heads@globalgarden.com Subject: [CH] Shellfish Poisoning x MA>Please, for the sake of all us raw oyster and/or other assorted MA>seviche eaters, correct me if I'm wrong. x Me too. On the *very* rare occasions when I can afford them, I love raw oysters. I've been assuming the lemon juice and peppers or whatever (oysters combine phenomenally well with the flavor of serranos) would kill most of whatever was problematical; if that isn't true, I'd like to know. x I wanna keep on rockin'! Rain @@@@ \\\\\ --- þ OLX 2.2 TD þ If I'm an agent of Satan, where's my ten percent?