LA Times weighs in on oyster ban

The Los Angeles Times looks at the FDA's plan to ban raw Gulf oysters during warm months.

California banned raw oysters from April through October and eliminated deaths from vibrio vulnificus, a deadly bacteria sometimes found in raw oysters harvested in warm months.


Mike Voisin, owner of Motivatit Seafoods Inc. in Houma, told the paper the new FDA rule is dictitorial. The FDA says the rule will stop 15 deaths a year.

"To protect everybody from everything, we'd stop driving in cars. We'd stop driving in planes," Voisin told the LA Times. "We'd stop getting out of bed."