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Will cooking make sewage-polluted shellfish safe to eat?
Last Updated: March 16, 2011
Not entirely. Cooking will kill bacteria that cause some diseases, but it is not known whether certain virus diseases, such as infectious hepatitis, can be prevented by cooking. Red tide toxins are not eliminated by cooking.
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