Georgia Department of Agriculture
Tommy Irvin, Commissioner 19 Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. SW
Atlanta, GA 30334 www.agr.georgia.gov
PRESS RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE March 29, 2010 For information contact: Tyler Adams or Arty Schronce at 404-656-3689
Public health agencies collaborate to prevent further illnesses from Norovirus outbreak associated with oysters recently harvested from area near Port Sulphur, La.
Monday, March 29, 2010
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is working with state health officials from Mississippi and Louisiana to notify consumers, food service operators and retailers nationwide about an outbreak of norovirus associated with oysters recently harvested from an area near Port Sulphur, La. known as Area 7. The oysters were sold or distributed nationwide.
Public health agencies are warning consumers not to purchase or eat oysters from the affected area and warning retailers and food-service operators not to sell or serve them. Louisiana's Area 7 is in the Gulf of Mexico near the mouth of the Mississippi River.
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm206353.htm