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<strong>Seafood</strong> Choices: Balancing Benefits and Risks<br />

http://www.nap.edu/catalog/11762.html<br />

0 SEAFOOD ChOICES<br />

TABLE 4-7 Individual Reported Vibrio ulnificus Cases of Illness<br />

Involving Commercial Oyster Products<br />

State 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Avg/Yr<br />

CA 5 7 2 2 8 7 7 6 1 4.5<br />

FL 8 5 6 14 12 5 11 5 12 8 8.6<br />

LA 2 2 1 7 2 1 4 1 1 2 2.3<br />

TX 1 8 7 2 6 9 7 5 6 3 5.4<br />

AL 4 2 1 3 1 1 2 2 1.6<br />

AR 1 1 1 1 1 0.5<br />

AZ 1 2 1 1 0.5<br />

CO 2 0.2<br />

CT 1 0.1<br />

GA 2 3 4 1 1 6 5 5 3 3.0<br />

IL 1 1 0.2<br />

IN 1 0.1<br />

KY 1 1 0.2<br />

MD 2 2 0.4<br />

ME 1 0.1<br />

MI 1 1 0.2<br />

MO 1 1 1 0.2<br />

MS 1 1 0.2<br />

NC 1 2 1 1 1 1 0.7<br />

NJ 1 0.1<br />

NM 1 1 0.2<br />

NV 1 1 0.2<br />

NY 1 1 0.2<br />

OH 1 2 0.3<br />

OK 1 1 1 0.3<br />

OR 1 0.1<br />

PA 1 0.1<br />

SC 4 3 2 0.9<br />

TN 1 1 2 0.4<br />

VA 1 1 1 2 0.5<br />

VI 1 1 0.2<br />

WI 1 0.1<br />

Totals 26 33 21 41 36 30 40 35 33 32<br />

Avg/state/year 0.98<br />

NOTE: A blank cell means no reported cases.<br />

SOURCE: Personal communication, A.P. Rainosek, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric<br />

Administration Fisheries, National <strong>Seafood</strong> Inspection Laboratory, Pascagoula, MS, July 2005<br />

(Data prepared for the Interstate Shellfish Sanitation Conference).<br />

complemented with a formal risk assessment conducted for V (FAO/WHO,<br />

2001). The plan includes specified industry performance goals for illness<br />

reduction rates and consequences if the goals are not attained.<br />

Commercial operations have responded with post-harvest processing<br />

procedures such as high-pressure, low-temperature pasteurization and<br />

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