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My point is that at least in my case, neither my father nor any of our family knew about the risk, so therefore, he was not ignoring the warning — he was never informed, we were never informed.

Yes, the menu has warnings. We were very familiar with the warnings. The warnings state, “there may be a risk associated with consuming raw shellfish…”

At no point did we ever remotely think that this meant you could have flesh eating bacteria, die and die a painful agonizing death. What I thought this meant was that you could get stomach distress, diarrhea, gastrointestinal cramps, etc. — NOT DEATH

The ISSC themselves had an independent study performed that found that of those individuals who were considered “at risk” … 60% were not aware of this information either. These are individuals who KNOW they have some type of medical issue. Now add to that all of the people who are undiagnosed with diabetes or something else that could compromise their immune system.

A person cannot make a choice between life or death when they are not even remotely aware.

Can we please stop trying to blame the victim? The victim did not knowingly participate in risky behavior or chose to die. In my case he was simply celebrating his birthday with one of his favorite meals with his family.

It makes me so angry to continue to see news articles that talk about how horrible this is for business. What about how horrible it is for the people who get sick and die from eating UNSAFE raw oysters unknowningly?

The oyster and restaurant industry want to talk about how people should know better if they are sick. Well, the fact is … they don’t know. Actually, many people who are considered at high risk from eating raw oysters don’t even know they are at risk, such as individuals with diabetes who have not yet been diagnosed or those with liver problems that are undiagnosed. There are countless other medical conditions that people may have and don’t have any idea that there is a problem eating raw oysters.

I can tell you from personal experience — my father died from eating raw oysters 2 years ago in Louisiana. My family had no idea that eating raw oysters had the potential to kill an individual, nor did we know that he was an at risk individual — nor did he. He ate raw oysters to celebrate his birthday and ended up dying from that meal.

FDA needs to finally do something about this and the oyster and restaurant industry need to stop thinking about just the bottom line and dollars and cents and start thinking about the safety of consumers and human lives.