Perdue Farms associates and family members join Oyster Recovery Partnership representatives to build oyster cages.

The FDA advisies consumers not to eat, and restaurants and food retailers not to sell, oysters from Groton Approved area, harvested from Aug. 28–30, 2023.

The FDA is issuing this alert advising consumers to not eat, and restaurants and food retailers to not sell, oysters harvested between 11/17/2022 and 12/7/2022 from harvest area TX 1, Galveston Bay, Texas due to possible norovirus contamination.

As part of a commitment to environmental stewardship, Perdue Farms associates recently joined Oyster Recovery Partnership (ORP) representatives to build oyster cages to support the Marylanders Grow Oysters program to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, along with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Public Health Agency of Canada, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, and state and local partners, are investigating a multi-state outbreak of Norovirus illnesses linked to raw oysters.